A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed in Ukraine when Russian forces shelled his apartment building in the eastern city of Kharkiv, a memorial foundation says.
Six survivors, including Boris Romanchenko, 2nd-right, gather together to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp's liberation at the Buchenwald memorial, near Weimar, Germany, on April 12, 2015.A Holocaust survivor was killed in Ukraine when Russian forces shelled his apartment building in the eastern city of Kharkiv, a memorial foundation said Monday.
Boris Romanchenko, 96, survived several Nazi concentration camps, but died Friday after the attack burned his building, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation said.Romanchenko, who was born in northeastern Ukraine, was deported to Dortmund, Germany, in 1942, the organization said. After a failed escape, he was sent to four camps — Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen."We mourn the loss of a close friend," the foundation said.
The group added that Romanchenko's death illustrated the threat posed to other Holocaust survivors living in Ukraine., there are an estimated 10,000, many of them homebound. The memorial, along with dozens of other similar groups, has helped organize food and medicine drives for survivors, as well as pick-ups from the Ukrainian border and accommodations elsewhere in Europe.
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