Holocaust survivor killed in shelling in Ukraine's Kharkiv
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Killed in Kharkiv shelling
A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor who lived through three Nazi concentration camps during World War II has been killed in the bombing in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
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Russian shell hits flat
Boris Romanchenko was killed when Russian shelling hit his ordinary flat in Ukraine's second largest city, the memorial for the Buchenwald survivors said in a statement.
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Caught by Nazis in 1942
Romantschenko, a non-Jew, was born in Jan 1926 in Bondari, near the city of Sumy. He was rounded up by Nazi troops at the age of 16 during their 1942 invasion of the Soviet Union and deported to Germany.
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Survived the Holocaust
He spent time at the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp, the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp and the Bergen-Belsen camp. "Please think about how many things he has come through," Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
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'Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin': Ukraine
Ukraine's government reacted strongly to the news. "A Russian bomb hit his house and killed him. Unspeakable crime. Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin," tweeted Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba.