Kharkiv: Russians killed former concentration camp prisoner

Evropeiska Pravda – Monday, 21 March 2022, 15:47

A shell that hit a residential building in Kharkiv has killed Borys Romanchenko, a former prisoner of several concentration camps.

Source: Administration of the Buchenwald memorial complex on Twitter

According to Buchenwald officials: "As we learned from his loved ones, our friend Borys Romanchenko, who survived the Buchenwald, Peenemünde , Dora and Bergen-Belsen Nazi camps, was killed last Friday in a bomb blast at his home in Kharkiv. According to his granddaughter, he lived in a high-rise apartment building that was hit by the missile."

Borys Romanchenko, born in 1926 near Sumy, worked extensively on preserving the memory of Nazi crimes and was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee.

In 2012, Borys Romanchenko read the Buchenwald oath "Building a New Peace and Freedom" to mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.