Boris Romanchenko, who survived camps at Buchenwald, Peenemuende, Dora and Bergen-Belsen during World War II, was 96 when he died on Friday, Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp memorial said.
“A bullet hit the multi-storey building in which he lived. His apartment burned down,” the memorial said.
Mr Romanchenko was born in Ukraine in 1926 and was deported to Dortmund in Germany in 1942, where he was forced to work underground.
“He tried to escape but was caught and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in January 1943,” the memorial said.
At Peenemuende, he was made to help build the V-2 rocket that the Nazis used to bombard cities such as Antwerp, London, Paris and Norwich, leaving thousands of civilians dead.
Later in his life, became vice-president of the International Buchenwald-Dora Committee.
“We mourn the loss of a close friend. We wish his son and granddaughter, who brought us the sad news, a lot of strength in these difficult times,” the memorial said.
