LItalian President Sergio Mattarella spoke in a message of condolence of a “witness and victim of the horrors of wars, exacerbated nationalisms and totalitarian ideologies”.
In July 2020, Boris Pahor was promoted by Mattarella to the Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Republic. He also had the French Legion of Honor.
Born in Trieste on August 26, 1913, Boris Pahor was a resistance fighter during the war, in 1943, then deported at the beginning of 1944 to the concentration camp of Struthof, in Alsace, then to Dora, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen in Germany.
His most famous book, “Pilgrim among the shadows” (1990 for the French edition at La Table Ronde), is the dramatic account of his deportation, a testimony comparable to that of the Italian Primo Levi.
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