Nadina Abarth-Žerjav

Nadina Abarth-Žerjav (née Nada Žerjav) (March 5, 1912, Gorizia / Gorica – September 16, 2000, Ljubljana) was the daughter of the known Slovene politician and lawyer minister Gregor Žerjav and his wife, Milena née Lavrenčič. Her younger brother was Borut Žerjav (1916–1977), a journalist in Trieste and Paris after the Second World War. Her twin sister was Tatjana, who died young from tuberculosis (in 1943). Žerjav spent her early childhood in Graz and Ljubljana. Because her father, a politician, was preventively arrested and imprisoned during World War I in Ljubljana Castle and in Graz by the Austro-Hungarian authorities for his "notorious pro-Serbian attitudes", she lived for some time with her maternal grandparents. After the early death of both her parents from tuberculosis in 1929, she was educated in Munich and Paris. She spoke seven languages. Later she lived in Ljubljana. One of her close friends there was the painter Zoran Mušič. Nada travelled with him to Korčula and Cavtat in 1940. She was wounded in the time of the war, during the murder of a banker and businessman Avgust Praprotnik in Ljubljana on February 20, 1942. On November 28, 1949, Žerjav married Carlo Abarth, the well-known Turin automobile industrialist. Abarth-Žerjav…Citește mai mult

Notice of death La Stampa 19.9.2000 Correspondence with Tazio Nuvolari - left letters, Nuvolari-Guerra Museum, Centro Guide Mantova "I Gonzaga" Notice of death Carlo Abarth, Stampasera, 26.10.1979

Interviews with Nadina Abarth-Zerjav (Dario Lampa) Gianfranco Fagiuoli - Guido Gerosa: Carlo Abarth, Automobile Club d'Italia, l'editrice dell automobile Gianfranco Fagiuoli - Guido Gerosa: Carlo Abarth, Motorbuch Verlag

Carli Abarth, the man, the machines period-foto-documents released by Abarth & Co, Turin, Italy