Survivor of Nazi German terror killed by Russians in Ukraine: reports

Boris Romantschenko, who survived four Nazi German concentration camps during World War II, has been killed during the Russian bombardment of Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv, several news outlets reported on Monday.

Emergency services remove debris after Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 21, 2022.

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Aged 96, Romantschenko met his death when a Russian bomb hit his apartment building in Kharkiv on March 18, according to broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

During World War II, Romantschenko survived the Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps and later worked to keep alive the memory of Nazi German crimes, Poland's tysol.pl website reported.

It said Romantschenko was deputy chairman of the  Buchenwald-Dora International Committee.

“We are stunned,” the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation wrote on Twitter, announcing the man’s death, as cited by tysol.pl.

Boris Romantschenko survived the concentration camps #Buchenwald, #Peenemünde, #Dora and #BergenBelsen. Now he has been killed by a bullet that hit his house in #Charkiv, #Ukraine. He was 96 years old. We are stunned. pic.twitter.com/ZZIK2OdbAu

— Stift. Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora (@Buchenwald_Dora) March 21, 2022

Monday was day 26 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Source: tysol.pl, PAP, rferl.org, news.sky.com