A survivor of Nazi concentration camps dies in a bombing in Ukraine

A survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, Boris Romantschenko, died in the bombing of the building where he lived, in Kharkiv, northwest of Ukrainethe German Foundation for the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials said on Monday.

“An attack hit the multi-story building where he lived. Her apartment caught fire.” indicates in a statement the Foundation, which expressed its “horror” and “mourns the loss of a close friend.”

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96 years old, the former Buchenwald prisoner and Vice President of the International Buchenwald-Dora Committee for Ukraine He died on Friday, the organization added, stating that he was informed of his death by his granddaughter.

Romantschenko had been deported to Germany in 1942, at the age of 16, as a forced laborer.

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After an escape attempt, he was sent to the concentration camp. Buchenwaldin the center of Germanyin 1943. Then he was interned in Peenemünde, Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen, the Foundation specified.

before returning to Ukrainespent several years in the Soviet army stationed in East Germany, according to the Maximilian Kolbe charity, which works to provide material and psychological support to former prisoners of Nazi camps.

The association has been associated for several years with Boris Romantschenko who was sick and could hardly leave the apartment where he lived alone, on the eighth floor of a building in Kharkov, an NGO collaborator told AFP.

“The horrific death of Boris Romantschenko shows the extent to which the war in Ukraine is a threat to the survivors of the concentration camps.”, emphasizes the Foundation of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials, which tries to send them medicine and food.

He estimates the number of survivors of Nazi persecution currently residing in Ukraine at around 42,000.

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