96-year-old Holocaust survivor killed by Russian strike, memorial institute says

Romanchenko’s loss of life was confirmed by the Buchenwald focus camp memorial institute in a series of tweets.

The official US navy account of the liberation referred to as the camp “a logo of the chill-blooded cruelty of the German Nazi state,” the place 1000’s of political prisoners had been starved and “others had been burned, overwhelmed, hung and shot to loss of life.”

Romanchenko’s granddaughter instructed the memorial he was dwelling in an condominium block in Kharkiv that was hit throughout a Russian assault.

In 2012, Romanchenko attended an occasion commemorating the liberation of Buchenwald, the place he learn an oath dedicated to “creating a brand new world the place peace and freedom reign,” the memorial mentioned.

In 2018, a Kharkiv newspaper reported on his go to to Buchenwald on the 73rd anniversary of the camp’s liberation by US forces.

“The occasion was attended by the final surviving Buchenwald prisoners from Ukraine and Belarus — Borys Romanchenko from Kharkiv, Oleksandr Bychok from Kyiv and Andriy Moiseenko from Minsk,” the report mentioned.

Andriy Yermak, head of the Workplace of the President of Ukraine, addressed Romanchenko’s loss of life on his Telegram account.

“That is what they name the ‘operation of denazification,'” he mentioned, alluding to Russia’s declare that its invasion of Ukraine is designed to save lots of the nation from Nazi components.

Ukrainian International Minister Dmytro Kuleba referred to as Romanchenko’s loss of life an “unspeakable crime” on Twitter.

“Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin,” he wrote.

The northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv has been topic to heavy missile and rocket assaults for the reason that Russian invasion started however will not be but fully surrounded, Ukrainian officers mentioned Monday.