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Germany honors survivor of Nazi camps, 96, killed in Ukraine

The German parliament Bundestag commemorates Boris Romantschenko at the beginning of the session in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. The Buchenwald survivor had been killed in a bombing raid in Ukraine. Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp memorial says Boris Romanchenko, who survived camps at Buchenwald, Peenemuende, Dora and Bergen-Belsen during World War II, was killed Friday when his home in Kharkiv was attacked. Romanchenko was 96 and vice president of the International Buchenwald-Dora Committee. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

Participants of a memorial service for Buchenwald survivor Boris Romantschenko stand in front of his photo in Weimar, Germany Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Germany’s parliament has paid tribute to Boris Romanchenko, who survived several Nazi concentration camps during World War II but was killed last week during an attack in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. He was 96. (Bodo Schackow/dpa via AP)

In this photo provided by the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Foundation, former Buchenwald prisoner Boris Romanchenko, second from right, from Ukraine attends with other survivors a commemoration for murdered prisoners at the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, April, 12, 2015. Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp memorial says Boris Romanchenko, who survived camps at Buchenwald, Peenemuende, Dora and Bergen-Belsen during World War II, was killed Friday when his home in Kharkiv was attacked. Romanchenko was 96 and vice president of the International Buchenwald-Dora Committee. (Michael Reichel/TSK/Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Foundation via AP)

Germany honors survivor of Nazi camps, 96, killed in Ukraine