Boris Romanchenko, a prisoner of the German concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau, was killed in Kharkiv after Russian bombing. He lived in one of the apartment buildings that was hit by a Russian bomb.
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This was reported by the Memorial to the Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps. Romanchenko was one of those released from these camps and previously worked with the memorial fund, was vice president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee.
"As we have learned from relatives, our friend Boris Romanchenko, who survived the Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and BergenBelsen concentration camps, died last Friday in a bomb blast at his home in Kharkiv. We are deeply concerned," the memorial said.
The organization added that in 2012, during the commemoration of the anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Boris Romanchenko (pictured second from the right) read Buchenwald's oath "to build a new world of peace and freedom."
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Yesterday Russia intensified shelling of houses in Kharkiv.