Holocaust survivor dies in Russian bombing of Ukraine home

ald Memorial foundation said on Monday ."It is with dismay that we have to report the violent death of Boris Romantschenko in the war in Ukraine," the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials foundation said in a statement.

Describing him as"a close friend", the foundation said Mr Romantschenko was committed to educating others about the horrors of the Nazi era and had been vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee. Although he was not Jewish, he was taken by German soldiers when he was 16 years old and deported to the German city of Dortmund in 1942 to work as a forced labourer, as part of Nazi intimidation tactics against the Ukrainian population at the time.He also spent time in the camps of Peenemuende, where he was forced to help build V2 rockets, and in Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen.

The foundation said it had partnered with 30 other remembrance groups and associations to set up an"aid network" to support former Nazi victims in Ukraine, including through donations of food and medicine.

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