He was 96 years old and was first interned in Dortmund in 1942 and then deported to Dortmund beech forest, then in the MittelbauDora and BergenBelsen concentration camps. He died under the Kharkiv bombs Boris Romanchenkosurvived the concentration camps.
Romanchenko, who is considered a Soviet “communist” as a Ukrainian political prisoner, was also the vice president of the international committee of survivors of the Buchenwald and Dora labor camps, according to the memorial’s Twitter profile. The 96yearold, the memorial writes, “died in Kharkiv on Friday. A bomb attack hit the multistory building where he lived and his apartment burned down.”
Born January 20, 1926 & Bondarinear Sumy, was captured and interned by the Germans in 1942 Dortmund as a prisoner of war. He was able to escape but was caught again and deported beech forest in October 1943. Here he was forced to do forced labour: forced to cooperate with the Germans in the construction of the V2 ballistic missiles at the Peenemünde base, he was then transferred to the MittelbauDora and BergenBelsen concentration camps.
After the war he was involved in setting up an aid network for former victims of Nazi persecution in Ukraine. As reported by the memorial’s Twitter account, Romanchenko took part in several commemorations of the Shoah and the Nazi persecutions. As can be seen in the photos, he often wore the striped uniform with the sewnon red triangle that distinguished political prisoners.