Английская Википедия:Borys Romanchenko
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Borys Tymofiyovych Romanchenko (Шаблон:Lang-uk; 20 January 1926 – 18 March 2022) was a Ukrainian public figure, activist and non-Jewish[1] Holocaust survivor who survived the Buchenwald, Dora and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. He was killed by Russian airstrikes during the Battle of Kharkiv during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[2][1][3][4]
Biography
Romanchenko was born on 20 January 1926 in Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR.[1]
At age 16, Romanchenko was captured and deported to Dortmund in Nazi Germany, where he had to perform forced labour in a coal mine. After a failed attempt to escape, he was interned at Buchenwald concentration camp. Later, he was forced to work in the production of V-2 rockets at Peenemünde Army Research Center. He was transferred to Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and finally liberated at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After returning home, he studied in Kharkiv.[2]
After surviving three Nazi concentration camps, Romanchenko actively shared his memories of those events and was involved in preserving the memory of tragedies caused by Nazis. He was vice-president (from Ukraine) of the International Committee of Former Prisoners of Buchenwald-Dora.[5]
On 12 April 2015, he spoke at the site of the former Buchenwald concentration camp, citing from the Buchenwald Oath in Russian: Шаблон:Lang ("Our ideal is building a new world of peace and freedom").[5]
Death
He was living in the Saltivka area of Kharkiv at the time of his death on 18 March 2022.[1]
His granddaughter Yulia Romanchenko said that there was shelling in the area and when she went to his house it was completely burned down.[1] The Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba commented on Twitter: "Unspeakable crime. Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin."[1]
Commemoration
The City Council of Leipzig in Germany decided on 9 November 2022 to rename the street "Turmgutstraße" in the area Gohlis in Leipzig, where also the Consulate General of the Russian Federation resides, in honor to Romanchenko to "Boris-Romantschenko-Straße".[6]
References
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- Английская Википедия
- 1926 births
- 2022 deaths
- People from Kharkiv
- Buchenwald concentration camp survivors
- Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp survivors
- Deaths by airstrike during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Kharkiv (2022)
- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors
- Ukrainian activists
- Soviet World War II forced labourers
- Civilians killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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