HIGHLIGHTS
- A 96-year old Holocaust survivor Borys Romanchenko was killed in a Russian strike.
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba expressed his condolences.
- “Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin”, Kuleba wrote.
A 96-year old Holocaust survivor Borys Romanchenko was killed in a Russian strike in Ukraine’s Kharkiv city. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba expressed his condolences over Romanchenko’s death. “Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin”, he wrote.
According to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial, Romanchenko survived the camps at Buchenwald, Peenemunde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen during World War II.
The memorial said that it was “stunned” by news of his death adding, Romanchenko worked “intensively on the memory of Nazi crimes and was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee.”
