96-year-old Holocaust survivor killed in Ukraine after his home was hit by Russian shelling
A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed last week in a Russian bombing in his home city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
The victim, Borys Romanchenko, survived the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen during World War II. The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation confirmed Romanchenko's death in tweet Monday.
The foundation said Romanchenko's granddaughter reported that the multi-story building he was living in was hit by Russian shells, adding it was "deeply disturbed" by the news of his death.
Romachenko was deported to the German city of Dortmund in 1942 and was assigned to forced labor, The Washington Post reported. He was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1943 after trying to escape, and he was held in other concentration camps until 1945.
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