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Boris Romanchenko, a former prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald, Peenemende, Dora and Bergen-Belsen, died after a Russian rocket hit his house in Kharkov. The Buchenwald and Dora Memorial announced this on its Twitter page..
As we learned from his loved ones, our friend Boris Romanchenko, a survivor of the #Buchenwald, #Peenemunde, #Dora and #BergenBelsen Nazi camps, was killed last Friday in a bomb blast at his home in #Kharkiv. We are deeply disturbed. pic. twitter. com/hgJeL6gkGT.
– Stift. Gedenkstatten Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora (@Buchenwald_Dora) March 21, 2022.
According to Boris' granddaughter, the man died after shelling in Kharkov.
The former prisoner was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dor Memorial International Committee and actively campaigned for the memory of Nazi crimes during World War II..
In 2012, during the celebrations on the occasion of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Boris Romanchenko read out the Buchenwald oath about " Memorial reports..
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Earlier, Babi Yar suffered from Russian shelling: the invaders fired at the Kiev TV tower and hit the Holocaust Memorial. Then five people died, six were evacuated.