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.
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