It wasn’t a history for us
Download image
Giora Solar was born on April 9, 1947 in Prešov. During the Second World War, his mother Edita and father Albert were persecuted because of their Jewish origin. Both of them managed to survive the horrors of Auschwitz, they met and got married after the war. In 1949 they decided to emigrate from Czechoslovakia to Israel. In 1965 Giora graduated from grammar school and in 1968 he completed the compulsory military service, during which he as a radio operator took part in a six-day war against the Arabian countries. He finished studies of architecture and antiquity restoring in Italy and yet during his study he got employed in Haifa archaeological research. In 1980s he became a significant Israeli renovator participating in beginning of institutionalizing of archaeological preservation in Israel. Later he worked for UNESCO and in a great way he also endeavored that the city of Bardejov was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2000.