Holocaust

Russian forces damaged a Holocaust memorial near the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s ministry of defense said Saturday, the second such incident since Russia invaded Ukraine a month ago. The ministry said in a Twitter post that the Drobitsky Yar memorial near Kharkiv was hit by Russian forces. It separately cited…

KHARKIV, Ukraine —  In a city stalked by death and bombardment, only four mourners gathered Thursday in a blustery chill for a final farewell to Boris Romantschenko. But in the six days since the 96-year-old survivor of Nazi concentration camps was killed by a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city…

In late February, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Inna Vdovichenko, a staffer in the Odessa office of the Jewish humanitarian organization JDC, was sitting in Natalia Berezhnaya’s home when an air raid alert began. Sirens blared. For Vdovichenko, who had come over to keep Berezhnaya company and to see…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comMarch 22 (Reuters) - He survived the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. He survived the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp in the same war. And the Bergen-Belsen camp. Last week, Boris Romanchenko, a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor, was killed when shelling hit his…

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. 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…

A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor has been killed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. As a young man Boris Romantschenko survived the Nazi occupation of his country and four concentration camps but was killed when a Russian shell hit his apartment on Friday.  Kharkiv has been under sustained attack by Russia…

Image source, Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation Image caption, Boris Romantschenko survived detention in four separate concentration camps between 1942 and 1945 A Ukrainian man who survived the Nazi Holocaust during World War Two has been killed during a Russian attack on the eastern city of Kharkiv. Boris Romantschenko, 96,…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to make the long-anticipated designation on Monday at an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to make the long-anticipated designation on Monday at an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum The Biden administration intends to declare…

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration intends to declare that Myanmar’s years-long repression of the Rohingya Muslim population is a “genocide,” U.S. officials said Sunday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to make the long-anticipated designation on Monday at an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, according to the officials…

Whoopi Goldberg has apologized after she was criticized for saying that the Nazi genocide of six million Jews “was not about race.”The Oscar-winning TV personality said on ABC’s “The View” that the Holocaust involved “two white groups of people.” “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race,…