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Josef Bor

Died in 1979

Josef Bor, whose real name was Josef Bondy, was born on 2 July 1906 in Ostrava, into a family of Jewish merchants, and became a lawyer after a doctorate in law at Brno in 1929. Interned at Terezín in June 1942, transferred to Auschwitz in October 1944, where his family were killed, then to Buchenwald, he was freed in April 1945. He then worked at the Ministry of Defence and later as a corporate lawyer in Prague, could no longer publish after 1968 and died in Prague on 31 January 1979.

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