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Ukraine war: Holocaust survivor killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv
Boris Romantschenko, 96, died during Russian shelling of his apartment block on Friday, relatives said.
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The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation said it was "deeply disturbed" by Mr Romantschenko's death.
The organisation, of which Mr Romantschenko was vice-president, announced the news after being informed by his family and said he had "worked intensely on the memory of of Nazi crimes".
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He was rounded up by Nazi troops after the invasion of the Soviet Union and deported to Germany in 1942, where he was forced to do hard labour, the foundation said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60826303
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The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation said it was "deeply disturbed" by Mr Romantschenko's death.
The organisation, of which Mr Romantschenko was vice-president, announced the news after being informed by his family and said he had "worked intensely on the memory of of Nazi crimes".
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He was rounded up by Nazi troops after the invasion of the Soviet Union and deported to Germany in 1942, where he was forced to do hard labour, the foundation said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60826303
Putin murdered a citizen of the Soviet Union who suffered under the Nazis, and then worked to heal the world, in the name of 'denazification'.
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Way to go, Putin!
