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Yuri Pilyar

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
October 13 1924
Died
0909 04 19871987
Yuri Evgenievich Pilyar . Russian Soviet writer.

He was born into the family of a village teacher . From the family of barons Pilar von Pilchau .

He graduated from school in Yavenga, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast. He read a lot, had a talent for mathematics, was the editor of a school newspaper.

In 1941 he applied to the Vorovsky Leningrad State Institute of Journalism, but in connection with the war he volunteered for the front. Enlisted in the intelligence department of the control platoon. In battles he was wounded, while trying to break out of the encirclement south-west of Rzhev, was captured on July 20, 1942. He was a prisoner of many POW camps, since February 1943 - a prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp. He tried to escape several times, participated in an underground struggle, which was waged in the camp by the international organization of the Resistance.

He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree and many medals, for more than two decades he represented our veterans in the International Committee of Mauthausen Prisoners, was the vice-president of this committee.

From 1946 he lived in Moscow, studied at the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute.
In 1955, Novy Mir magazine published his story All That Was, about the horrors of the Nazi death camps.

Yuri Pilyar

3.8/5 ( ratings)
Born
October 13 1924
Died
0909 04 19871987
Yuri Evgenievich Pilyar . Russian Soviet writer.

He was born into the family of a village teacher . From the family of barons Pilar von Pilchau .

He graduated from school in Yavenga, Vozhegodsky District, Vologda Oblast. He read a lot, had a talent for mathematics, was the editor of a school newspaper.

In 1941 he applied to the Vorovsky Leningrad State Institute of Journalism, but in connection with the war he volunteered for the front. Enlisted in the intelligence department of the control platoon. In battles he was wounded, while trying to break out of the encirclement south-west of Rzhev, was captured on July 20, 1942. He was a prisoner of many POW camps, since February 1943 - a prisoner of the Mauthausen concentration camp. He tried to escape several times, participated in an underground struggle, which was waged in the camp by the international organization of the Resistance.

He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree and many medals, for more than two decades he represented our veterans in the International Committee of Mauthausen Prisoners, was the vice-president of this committee.

From 1946 he lived in Moscow, studied at the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute.
In 1955, Novy Mir magazine published his story All That Was, about the horrors of the Nazi death camps.

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