Writer, Holocaust survivor Boris Pahor dies aged 108

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 30 - Italy is mourning Slovene-language writer and Holocaust survivor Boris Pahor, who has died at the age of 108.
    In his work, Pahor, who was born in Trieste in 1913, describes the plight of the Slovenian minority in pre-Second World War fascist Italy and life in Nazi concentration camps.
    Pahor survived spells at the Dachau, Mittelbau-Dora, Harzungen and Bergen-Belsen death camps after being captured while fighting for the Slovene Partisans against the Nazi occupation in World War II.
    He wrote dozens of books that were widely translated.
    "With the passing of Boris Pahor we have lost a great writer, a giant of the 20th century who was able to tell the horrors of the concentration camp with skill and clarity, pulling no punches," said Culture Minister Dario Franceschini. (ANSA).