Communication from Memorial Foundation
96-year-old concentration camp survivor killed in Kharkiv bomb attack
Ukraine, Kharkiv: View of damaged vehicles and buildings in the city center
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The memorial foundation said it was “deeply dismayed”: Boris Romantschenko, a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, died in a bomb attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
According to the Memorial Foundation, a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp was killed in a bomb attack in Kharkiv.
The director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Jens-Christian Wagner, said on Monday that 96-year-old Boris Romantschenko died on Friday in an attack on his multi-storey apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city. He referred to information from a long-time confidante of the foundation in Kharkiv.
Foundation: Boris Romanchenko survived four concentration camps
Romantschenko survived the Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, the foundation announced on Twitter. He was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee.
Since the 1990s he has regularly come to events on the site of the former concentration camp near Weimar, said Wagner. Romantschenko has not left his apartment in Kharkiv for months – for fear of contracting the corona virus.
At the beginning of the war in the Ukraine, Wagner had already expressed concern for the concentration camp survivors living there. It was “particularly tragic for the Ukrainian concentration camp survivors who suffered with the Russian prisoners in the camps and who are now sitting in the air raid shelter and are threatened with their lives by Russian bombs,” he said.