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Boris Pahor

Died in 2022

Boris Pahor was born on 26 August 1913 in Trieste; at about the age of seven, he saw the fascists set fire to the city's Slovene cultural centre. He attended the Italian school, then the seminaries of Koper and Gorizia, which he left in 1938. Mobilised in Libya and back in Trieste in September 1943, he joined the resistance, was arrested and passed through Dachau, Natzweiler-Struthof, Dora and Bergen-Belsen. After the war, he taught in the Slovene schools of Trieste and ran a magazine. He died in Kontovel, near Trieste, on 30 May 2022, aged 108.

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