This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission.
A 96-year-old survivor of the World War II-era Nazi concentration camps has been killed by Russian shelling in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv.
The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial said on March 21 that the vice president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee, Borys Romanchenko, had died after a Russian bomb hit his apartment block in Kharkiv on March 18.
“We are stunned,” the foundation said.
Romanchenko was captured by Nazi troops and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in in 1942.
Until the war ended, he spent time in concentration camps in Peenemunde, Dora-Mittelbau, and Bergen-Belsen.
For many years, Romanchenko took active part in public events to commemorate victims of the Holocaust.
