Boris Romantschenko, a 96-year-old survivor of Nazi concentration camps, died Friday at his home following a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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This was reported by the British daily The Guardian Monday morning citing German sources.
Mr. Romantschenko, a man who campaigned all his life for the preservation of the memory of the victims of Nazism, died after a projectile had struck his house, entrusted his granddaughter.
The man would have survived stays in four concentration camps: Buchenwald, Peenemünde, Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen.
In the past, he had been vice-president of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. Via Twitter, the foundation expressed its “deep dismay” at the death of this death camp survivor.