War in Ukraine: concentration camp survivor Boris Romantschenko buried in Kharkiv

The concentration camp survivor Boris Romantschenko on his last journey. The 96-year-old Holocaust survivor recently died when his apartment in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv was shelled. The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine has been going on for about a month now. A small group of relatives, including Romanchenko’s son Ihor and his granddaughter Yulia, attended the burial ceremony at the city’s cemetery. Son Ihor was full of sorrow: “He was unable to leave Kharkiv. And he stubbornly refused to go. We kept inviting him, kept coming after the shelling started. Brought him food. He categorically refused to walk. Nor was he able to. He could barely walk.” Boris Romantschenko survived the Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during World War II. What he did not survive was the shelling of the multi-story apartment building he called home.