ホロコースト生き延びた９６歳、ロシアの攻撃で死亡　ウクライナ

【ＡＦＰ＝時事】第２次世界大戦中、ナチス・ドイツの強制収容所を生き延びた、ウクライナ人のボリス・ロマンチェンコさんが１８日、ロシア軍の砲撃を受け、亡くなった。９６歳だった。ドイツのブーヘンバルト・ミッテルバウドーラ記念財団が２１日、発表した。（写真はボリス・ロマンチェンコさん。ドイツ東部ブーヘンバルト強制収容所の跡地にて（右から２人目）。ブーヘンバルト・ミッテルバウドーラ記念財団提供）
　同財団が息子と孫の情報として伝えたところによると、ウクライナ東部ハリコフの住居が砲撃された。
　ロマンチェンコさんは、ブーヘンバルトドーラ国際委員会の副委員長を務め、ナチス・ドイツ時代の恐怖を伝える活動を行っていた。
　ロマンチェンコさんは１９２６年１月２０日、ウクライナ北東部スムイ近郊ボンダリで生まれた。ユダヤ人ではなかったが、１６歳だった１９４２年に独西部ドルトムントに連行され、労働を強いられた。
　逃走を試みたが失敗し、１９４３年にブーヘンバルト強制収容所に送られた。その後、ペーネミュンデ強制収容所に移され、Ｖ２ロケットの建造を手伝った。ミッテルバウドーラ、ベルゲンベルゼンにも収容された。
　ウクライナ大統領府のアンドリー・イェルマーク長官は、ロシアのウラジーミル・プーチン大統領が「非ナチ化」をウクライナへの侵攻理由の一つに挙げていることに触れ、「これが彼らの呼ぶ『非ナチ化作戦』だ」と非難し「全世界がロシアの残虐さを目の当たりにしている」と述べた。
　支援団体のネットワークによると、ウクライナには約４万２０００人のホロコースト（ユダヤ人大虐殺）生存者がいる。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/03/23-13:24）

Boris Romantschenko, who survived four Nazi concentration camps during World War II, has been killed by Russian shelling that struck his flat in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the Buchenwald Memorial foundation said Monday. He was 96 years old.
It is with dismay that we have to report the violent death of Boris Romantschenko in the war in Ukraine, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials foundation said in a statement.
Romantschenko died at home on March 18 after his building was bombed in the heavily shelled eastern city, the statement said, citing information from his son and granddaughter.
Describing him as a close friend, the foundation said Romantschenko was committed to educating others about the horrors of the Nazi era and had been vice president of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee.
Romantschenko was born into a family of farmers in Bondari, near the Ukrainian city of Sumy, on January 20, 1926.
Although he was not Jewish, he was taken by German soldiers when he was 16 years old and deported to the German city of Dortmund in 1942 to work as a forced labourer, as part of Nazi intimidation tactics against the Ukrainian population at the time.
A failed escape attempt landed him in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp in 1943. He also spent time in the camps of Peenemuende, where he was forced to help build V2 rockets, and in Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen.
This is what they call the 'operation of denazification', said the head of Ukraine's presidential office, Andriy Yermak, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin's widely disbelieved claim that ridding Ukraine of Nazis was one reason for Moscow's invasion.
The whole world sees Russia's cruelty, Yermak added.
The Buchenwald Memorial said Romantschenko's death shows how dangerous the war in Ukraine is, also for concentration camp survivors.
The foundation said it had partnered with 30 other remembrance groups and associations to set up an aid network to support former Nazi persecutees in Ukraine, including through donations of food and medicine.
It also plans to offer practical help to survivors fleeing Ukraine by picking them up from the Ukrainian border or finding them accommodation in Germany.
There are still some 42,000 survivors of Nazi crimes living in Ukraine, according to the aid network.