Holocaust survivor dies in Russian bombing of Ukraine home

BERLIN: Boris Romantschenko, who survived four Nazi concentration camps during World War II, has been killed by Russian shelling that struck his flat in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the Buchenwald Memorial foundation said on Monday . He was 96 years old.war in UkraineRomantschenko died at home on Mar 18 after his building was bombed in the heavily shelled eastern city, the statement said, citing information from his son and granddaughter.

Romantschenko was born into a family of farmers in Bondari, near the Ukrainian city of Sumy, on Jan 20, 1926. A failed escape attempt landed him in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp in 1943. 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 persecutees in Ukraine, including through donations of food and medicine.

我看到被俄罗斯轰炸的乌克兰平民痛哭着说: '我们到底做了什么、到底犯了什么罪以至遭受如此屠杀'。习近平的所作所为相等于支持疯子普丁的暴行! 身为一个人，就得要 '行善积德'、凡事做到 ' 问心无愧'。这将是华人的莫大耻辱!

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