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    In Ukraine, a Holocaust survivor killed by a Russian missile is buried in haste

    KHARKIV, Ukraine — In a city stalked by death and bombardment, only four mourners gathered Thursday in a blustery chill for a final farewell to Boris Romantschenko. But in the six days since the 96-year-old survivor of Nazi concentration camps was killed by a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the world came to know his story. As Hitler’s darkness descended on Europe in ...
    by Marcus Yam and Laura King, Los Angeles Times Mar 24, 2022 3 minutes
    Gravediggers cover the coffin with soil and place the grave markers. Liubov Romantschenko, 62, from left, Julia Romantschenko, 34, an unnamed family friend, and Igor Romantschenko, 60, attend the funeral for Boris Romantschenko, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. Romantschenko survived HitlerOs wrath over Europe, survived forced labor and detention...

    KHARKIV, Ukraine — In a city stalked by death and bombardment, only four mourners gathered Thursday in a blustery chill for a final farewell to Boris Romantschenko.

    But in the six days since the 96-year-old survivor of Nazi concentration camps was killed by a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the world came to know his story.

    As Hitler’s darkness descended on Europe in the 1940s, Romantschenko, still a teenager, was captured by the Nazis and deported from Ukraine to Germany as a forced laborer. An attempted escape yielded

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