The Foundation for the Memory of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camps has published two Boris Romanchenko to announce his death. Romanchenko died on Friday at his home in Saltivka, a neighborhood in the northeast of Kharkiv, in Ukraine. A grenade hit his apartment. He died in the fire.
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Boris was 96 years old. He was born on January 20, 1926 in Bondari, near Sumy, and in his life he had already seen war. And also deportation. At sixteen he had been deported to Dortmund to forced labor. In the photograph he has the terrible uniform of the concentration camps with the red triangle, the one that identified political prisoners. The young man from the Soviet Union had been hired as a laborer. He fled from Dortmund to be captured however and transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp. He had also been held captive in Peenemünde, Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen. He had had to build the Nazi army’s V2 rockets. With the Soviet army he had been stationed in East Germany and then returned to Ukraine.
Her niece Yulia explained to the Ukrainian press: «He often told me about the war he had escaped from. He had kept a diary, who knows if we will find it again. He taught me everything, I always went to visit him during the holidays. He had lived in that building for thirty years, alone. I tried to get him to leave, but he didn’t want to. By now he was deaf and it was hard to walk ». She told her niece so much about the war about him. “In those years he happened to dream even just a crumb of bread”. He would like to give him a worthy burial, the Municipality has said that he will cover the costs (25 thousand hryvnia, about 770 euros), but only after the war.
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In the second photo published there is the oath he made for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald camp. “Building a new world of peace and freedom is our ideal” he said then. Andriy Yermak, a collaborator of President Volodymyr Zelensky, wrote on Telegram: «This is what they call the ‘denazification operation’». “The new fascists continue Hitler’s work,” wrote the mayor of Lviv, Andrij Sadovyj.
Source: Vanity Fair
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