'Hitler could not defeat our friend Boris. Now another fascist dictator, Vladimir Putin, has killed him' | Opinion by Jens Christian-Wagner
Jens-Christian Wagner is professor of history at the University of Jena and Director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation at Weimar, Germany. The views expressed here are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.
The work week at the Buchenwald Memorial -- which honors the lives lost at the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp -- began Monday with a shock: In the morning, we received the news from Ukraine that our friend Boris Romantschenko, a survivor of Buchenwald and three other concentration camps, had died when a Russian missile struck his multi-story apartment building in Kharkiv.
Jens-Christian WagnerRomantschenko was 96 years old. In the concentration camp he had fought with his fellow Russian prisoners against the SS. Since his liberation in 1945, Romantschenko had been committed to preserving the memory of Nazi terror and to peace. Now, this brave man, whose mother tongue was Russian, has become a victim of the Russian invasion of Ukraine -- a tragedy and a shame. Romantschenko was born in 1926, in the village of Bondari in the Sumy Oblast of Ukraine.
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