She is currently named 96-year-old Kharkiv resident Boris Romanchenko, who died after the Russian shelling of the city, Radio Liberty reports. Information on the death of the former prisoner of Nazi concentration camps appeared on March 21. It is known that his apartment got a projectile launched by Russian troops. Boris Romanchenko survived the Holocaust and was in four concentration camps of Nazi Germany.
He also held the position of Vice President of the International Committee of Former Prisoners Buchenwald-Dora from Ukraine. At the beginning of this month, the initiative to rename the Turmut-Shtrasse Street was supported by 33 representatives of the city council, including the head of Leipzig Burkhard Jung. 17 voted against, three people abstained.
In May, it was proposed to name Zelensky-Shtrasse Street, but the City Council rejected such a proposal, explaining its decision by the fact that city streets were allowed to be named after people who died at least five years ago. We will remind that in Kiev rename the streets. Scriabin and Chernobayivska lane appeared. In total, they plan to change the names of more than 40 streets. According to officials, new names were chosen by residents of the capital.
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