Holocaust survivor killed by Russian missile in Ukraine war
Created: 03/21/2022Updated: 03/21/2022 15:47
By: Fabian Raddatz
Boris Romantschenko (centre) at an event at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial.
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Boris Romanchenko was killed in the Ukraine war.
The 96-year-old had survived several concentration camps, including Bergen-Belsen in Lower Saxony.
But not the hail of bombs in Kharkiv.
Weimar – He survived the Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps in Lower Saxony, but he did not survive the Russian bombs.
96-year-old Boris Romanchenko was killed on Friday, March 18, 2022, in an attack on his multi-storey apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, said the director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Jens-Christian Wagner, on Monday the German Press Agency.
Wagner referred to information from a long-time confidant of the foundation in Kharkiv.
Boris Romantschenko not only survived four concentration camps, he was also 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.
Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps survived: 96-year-old killed in Ukraine war – “particularly tragic”
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.
Anna Strishkowa from Kiev also survived the Holocaust and was liberated from the concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945.
This was reported by the editorial network Germany (RND) in early March.
Strishkowa wants to stay despite the attack on Kyiv.
According to RND, Strishkowa is certain: "We will win." * kreiszeitung.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
