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19 de nov. de 2013 · With ordinary Albanians moving Jews from hide-out to hide-out to elude capture, Albania saved virtually all of its 200 native Jews and 400 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria.
8.8 (69) Rate. Halit Berati, a virtuoso clarinet player, becomes a focus of the resistance by the common people of Albania to the attempts by the Italians in the 1930's to influence their ideology and attitudes by controlling Albanian music, entertainment and literature.
Foreseeing the arrival of German troops, beginning in September 1943, the Jews of Albania-proper fled the cities and hid in the countryside, where they were concealed by rural Albanians. Some Jews feigned conversion to either Christianity or Islam while still maintaining a Jewish identity.
Jews and Albanians: Directed by Jakov Sedlar. With Armand Assante, Benjamin Netanyahu, Edi Rama.
Hace 1 día · 06/07/2024 June 7, 2024. Today, Albania has one of the smallest Jewish communities in Europe. But this wasn't always the case. In the course of World War II, the number of Jews in the country ...
Although the Jews were forbidden to leave the country and some of the refugees were put in a camp in Kavaje, the Italians refused to comply with Germany's demand to hand the Jews over. In September 1943, when the regime in Italy changed, Albania came under German control.
The Albanians not only protected their Jewish citizens, but also provided sanctuary to Jewish refugees who had arrived in Albania, when it was still under Italian rule, and now found themselves faced with the danger of deportation to concentration camps.
