A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived four concentration camps was killed in his home in Kharkiv, Ukraine when a Russian shell hit his home, a statement from a Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora memorial organization said.
“As we learned from his loved ones, our friend Boris Romanchenko, who survived the Nazi camps Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen was killed last Friday in a bomb blast at his home in Kharkiv,” the statement said. “We are deeply disturbed.”
“According to his granddaughter, he lived in a multi-story building that was hit by a shell. Boris Romanchenko was dedicated to preserving the record of Nazi crimes and was vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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He was not frum.
He had a Ukrainian last name which would be very unusual for a Jew to have, but it would be normal for an ethnic Ukrainian. He also did not look Jewish. I really doubt that he was a Holocaust survivor.
SHAME ON YOU! CLOSE THAT MOUTH OF YOURS! YWN, WHY WAS THIS NOT CENSORED?????
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