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March 22, 2022

96-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Killed by Russian Artillery Fire in Kharkiv
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Ukrainian officials say a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed when
Russian forces shelled an apartment building in the besieged city of
Kharkiv on Friday. Boris Romantschenko was captured by the Nazis at the
age of 16, deported to Germany and forced into hard labor as a political
prisoner in four Nazi concentration camps. He returned to the infamous
Buchenwald camp a decade ago to celebrate the 67th anniversary of its
liberation. On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky contrasted
the killing of Romantschenko with Vladimir Putin's claims that he's
seeking the "denazification" of Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky: "He survived Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau,
Peenemünde and Bergen-Belsen, the conveyors of death created by the
Hitlerites, but he was killed by a Russian strike which hit an ordinary
Kharkiv multistory building. With each day of this war, it becomes more
obvious what denazification means to them."



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