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Two tarok cards by concentration camp inmate Boris Kobe.
BoingBoing recently posted this outstanding link about Boris Kobe, “a Slovenian architect and painter who became a political prisoner in the concentration camp of Allach, a sub-camp of Dachau, near Munich, Germany.”
He illustrated a series of cards for tarok, a game that is still very popular here and that is, it should be noted, entirely distinct from tarot divination cards. (If you’re curious about the tremendously complicated and arcane rules of Slovenian tarok, this site explains everything.)
Kobe’s cards show scenes of life and death in the camp, with the mond featuring the liberation of Dachau and the Slovenian Yugoslavian flag triumphant.
Kobe returned to Slovenia after the war and, among other things, worked on the restoration of the Ljubljana Castle.
You can see the full set of cards and read a little bit about Kobe here.
