'Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin': World War II Holocaust survivor killed in Ukraine's Kharkiv

"Putin managed to `accomplish` what even Hitler couldn`t," Ukraine's Defence Ministry said on 96-year-old's death.

New Delhi: Boris Romanchenko, who survived the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II, has been killed after Russian shelling hit his flat in the war-ravaged Ukrainian city of Kharkiv last week, the memorial for the Buchenwald survivors said on Monday (March 22).

The 96-year-old Holocaust survivor had also survived the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp in the same war and then the Bergen-Belsen camp.

"It is with horror that we report the violent death of Boris Romanchenko in the war in Ukraine," the memorial for the Buchenwald survivors said in a statement.

"The multi-storey apartment building where Romanchenko lived was shelled and caught on fire," the statement added.

"The horrific death of Boris Romanchenko shows how threatening the war in Ukraine is for the concentration camp survivors," the memorial said.