A Ukrainian survivor from four Nazi concentration camps was killed by a Russian bombing on his home

A 96-year-old man, a survivor of four Nazi concentration camps during World War II, died last Friday during an attack on his home in Kharkov, Ukraine, by Russian troops.

Boris Romanchenko's death was announced on Monday by the memorial institute of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, one of the places of detention that this nearly centennial old man survived.

The other concentration camps were Peenemuende, Dora and Bergen-Belsen, all in Germany.

Quoting Romanchenko's relatives, the memorial says he died when his home in Kharkiv was hit by an apparent artillery fire.

“Boris Romantschenko campaigned intensively for the memory of Nazi crimes,” the Buchenwald Institute said on Twitter, adding that he had been vice-president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee, an organization of survivors.

The mayor of Lviv, Ukraine, mourned Romanchenko's death in a Telegram post.

“He was killed by a Russian missile in his apartment during a 'denazification operation',” Mayor Andriy Sadovy wrote. “The new fascists continue Hitler's work.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly called his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine a “denazification,” claiming that Ukraine is committing a “genocide” against its Russian-speaking population.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish and fluent in Russian, as are many Ukrainians.

Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, has been under bombardment for a month, since the beginning of the invasion of Russia.

Officials said Monday that a 9-year-old boy was killed in the last round of bombing on Sunday.

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