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 Au