Survived 4 Nazi concentration camps - and was killed at the age of 96 in a bombing in Kharkov

March 21, 2022   

Boris Romanchenko, a 96-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor who managed to survive no less than four concentration camps during the Holocaust, was killed last Friday in a Russian airstrike on his home city of Kharkiv. Why is it important to cooperate with Israel's Seventh Population Census? Romanchenko's relatives confirmed his death. The Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial Institute, which Romanchenko survived, also confirmed in a series of tweets on Twitter that the Holocaust survivor was killed in the bombings. Romanchenko was imprisoned during the Holocaust in the Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps, and the Fenmida labor camp, where he was forced to help build the Nazi V2 rockets. After the Holocaust, he served as vice president of the International Buchenwald Committee, and dedicated his life to Holocaust awareness and remembrance activities. "We are deeply saddened by the death of Romanchenko," wrote the heads of the Buchenwald Memorial Institute. "We mourn the loss of a close friend. We wish his son and granddaughter, who brought us the sad news, much strength in these difficult times." According to a BBC report, "A bomb hit the building where he lived and his apartment burned down." In an interview he gave to a local website in 2019, he said sadly: "I don't have money for regular checkups, so I hardly go to hospital checkups.".

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Wie wir von Angehörigen erfahren haben, wurde unser Freund Boris Romantschenko, der die KZs #Buchenwald, #Peenemünde, #Dora and #BergenBelsen überlebt hatte, am begegenen Freitag bei einem Bombenangriff auf sein Wohnhaus in #Kharkiv killed Wir sind zutiefst bestürzt. pic.twitter.com/SOMAdpQn35

— Stiftg. Gedenkstätten Buchenwald u. Mittelbau-Dora (@Buchenwald_Dora) March 21, 2022