German parliament honours survivor of Nazi camps killed in Ukraine

The German parliament Bundestag commemorates Boris Romanschenko (dpa via AP)

Germany’s parliament has paid tribute to 96-year-old Boris Romanchenko, who survived several Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War but was killed last week during an attack in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

The Buchenwald concentration camp memorial said on Monday that Mr Romanchenko, who survived Buchenwald as well as camps at Peenemuende, Dora and Bergen-Belsen, was killed on Friday.