{"id":1236,"date":"2022-03-22T19:05:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/holocaust-survivor-96-killed-in-ukraine-after-russian-forces-shell-apartment-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T19:05:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:05:54","slug":"holocaust-survivor-96-killed-in-ukraine-after-russian-forces-shell-apartment-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/holocaust-survivor-96-killed-in-ukraine-after-russian-forces-shell-apartment-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust survivor, 96, killed in Ukraine after Russian forces shell apartment &#8211; NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Profile<br \/>Sections<br \/>tv<br \/>Featured<br \/>More From NBC<br \/>Follow NBC News<br \/>A Holocaust survivor was killed in Ukraine when Russian forces shelled his apartment building in the eastern city of Kharkiv, a memorial foundation said Monday.<br \/>Boris Romanchenko, 96, who survived several Nazi concentration camps, died Friday after the attack burned his building, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation said.<br \/>Romanchenko had served on a committee for Holocaust survivors, the group said. <br \/>Romanchenko, who was born in northeastern Ukraine, was deported to Dortmund, Germany, in 1942, the organization said. After a failed escape, he was sent to four camps \u2014 Buchenwald, Peenem\u00fcnde, Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen.<br \/>More than 100,000 people combined were killed in Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen.<br \/>&#8220;We mourn the loss of a close friend,&#8221; the foundation said. &#8220;We wish his son and granddaughter, who gave us the sad news, a lot of strength in these difficult times.&#8221;<br \/>The group added that Romanchenko&#8217;s death illustrated the threat to other Holocaust survivors living in Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juf.org\/Ukraine\/?source=CrisisInUkraineModal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the nonprofit Jewish United Fund<\/a>, there are an estimated 10,000, many of them homebound.<br \/>The memorial, along with dozens of similar groups, has helped organize food and medicine drives for survivors, as well as pickups from the Ukrainian border and accommodations elsewhere in Europe.<br \/>A network of Jewish and non-Jewish grassroots groups <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-middle-east-religion-los-angeles-europe-c8ce8b6a8e79820961bd1431744c4a5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been trying to help<\/a> survivors flee the war-ravaged country. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/03\/17\/world\/europe\/russia-destroying-kharkiv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recent images of Kharkiv published by The New York Times<\/a> show the devastation the city of 1.4 million has endured since Russia invaded last month, including the destruction of residential buildings, a regional administrative office and a university.<br \/>The city&#8217;s emergency services office said 500 people were confirmed dead, number that is likely to grow as rescue workers dig through rubble, The Times reported.<br \/>Tim Stelloh is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.<br \/>&copy;&nbsp;2022 NBC UNIVERSAL<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/holocaust-survivor-96-killed-ukraine-russian-forces-shell-apartment-rcna20942\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsA Holocaust survivor was killed in Ukraine when Russian forces shelled his apartment building in the eastern city of Kharkiv, a memorial foundation said Monday.Boris Romanchenko, 96, who survived several Nazi concentration camps, died Friday after the attack burned his building, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation said.Romanchenko had served on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}