#Ukraine war: Hitler wanted to kill me – don’t let Putin, says Ukrainian Holocaust survivor

A Ukrainian #Holocaust survivor made an impassioned plea to the German parliament on Wednesday to do more to fight Russia’s “new war of #extermination”, as Germany marks 80 years since the liberation of #Auschwitz.

“Back then #Hitler wanted to kill me because I am Jew,” said Roman Schwarzman, 88. “Now #Putin wants to kill me because I am a #Ukrainian.”

#Schwarzman, president of Ukraine’s association for concentration camp & ghetto survivors, said he had first-hand experience of “Russian #terror” when a missile hit his building in Odesa in December 2023, leaving everything inside his apartment smashed to pieces.

“I have already been able to escape extermination once,” he said, referring to the Holocaust. “Now I am an old man and must once again live with the fear that my children and grandchildren could fall victim to a war of extermination.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/30/ukraine-war-briefing-hitler-wanted-to-kill-me-dont-let-putin-says-ukrainian-holocaust-survivor

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