A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, Borys Romanchenko, was killed Friday by a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Romanchenko's death was confirmed by the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial institute in a series of tweets.Romanchenko survived the camps at Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen during World War II, the memorial said, adding that it was"stunned" by news of his death. It said Romanchenko worked"intensively on the memory of Nazi crimes and was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee.
In 2012, Romanchenko attended an event commemorating the liberation of Buchenwald, where he read an oath devoted to"creating a new world where peace and freedom reign," the memorial said. In 2018, a Kharkiv newspaper reported on his visit to Buchenwald on the 73rd anniversary of the camp's liberation by US forces.
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