About Amilcare Debar
Lived 1927 – 2010 (aged 83). Amilcare Debar was an Italian resistance fighter.
Amilcare Debar (1927–2010) was an Italian Sinto partisan who fought in the Italian resistance movement.
Life
Amilcare Debar was born in Frossasco, Turin on 16 June 1927. Orphaned, he was sent with his sister to a home in Cuneo and known as Taro. He fought under Pompeo Colajanni in the battalion of the 48th Garibaldi Brigade, taking the name Corsaro.
After the war, he first worked as policeman in Racconigi then after a chance meeting with his half-brother on a police traffic stop, rejoined his family and lived nomadically. He later represented the Sinti people at the United Nations. He received the official recognition as partisan by president and former partisan Sandro Pertini.
Debar died on 12 December 2010.
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Who was Amilcare Debar?
Sinti Italian partisan
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Amilcare Debar was born on 16 June 1927 in Frossasco.
When did Amilcare Debar die?
Amilcare Debar died on 12 December 2010.
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Amilcare Debar was a resistance fighter.
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Amilcare Debar was Italian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Amilcare Debar. https://biography.guide/amilcare-debar/
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