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A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed when Russian forces shelled his home

Boris Romantschenko was killed last week in a Russian attack in Kharkiv. He survived four concentration camps and later "campaigned intensively for the memory of the Nazi crimes."

Among the victims of Russia's war in Ukraine is a Holocaust survivor who devoted his life to preserving its history.

Boris Romantschenko survived four concentration camps including Buchenwald, Dora and Bergen Belsen. The 96-year-old was.

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