About Nisim Albahari
Lived 1916 – 1991 (aged 74–75). Nisim Albahari was a political commissar and revolutionary.
Nisim Albahari (1916 — 1991), was a Yugoslav Partisan, People's Hero of Yugoslavia and political leader in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Biography Nisim Albahari was born on January 28, 1916, in the town of Tešanj to a Jewish family. He attended school in Sarajevo, where he was first introduced to revolutionary socialism thought and participated in cultural, sports and political activities.
After finishing school, he continued his revolutionary activities, becoming active in the trade union movement and joining the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1935. The following year he was imprisoned for a year by authorities, a sentence he served in Sarajevo, Belgrade's infamous "Glavnjača" prison, and on Adi Ciganliji.
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Yugoslav communist (1916–1991)
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Nisim Albahari was born on 28 January 1916 in Tešanj.
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Nisim Albahari died in 1991 in Sarajevo.
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Nisim Albahari was a political commissar and revolutionary.
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