Rescue in Albania
Author: Harvey Sarner
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 152
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Author: Harvey Sarner
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shaban Sinani
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9789928109668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Apostol Kotani
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781300179344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Apostol Kotani tells the story of Jews in Albania from ancient times to the present. But most importantly, he documents what happened in Albania during World War II when no Jews were given up to the holocaust even though Albania was occupied by Nazi Germany. Following the ancient Albanian code of Besa, Albanians from all walks of life sheltered Jews in their homes, always treating them as honored guests. Dr. Kotani served as a guide to Norman H. Gershman as he photographed Albanian rescuers for his book, Besa - Muslims Who Saved Jews In World War II. Dr. Kotani's research was instrumental to the movie about Mr. Gershman's project, Besa - The Promise. Here is the story of those who were rescued and the Albanians who sheltered them.
Author: Norman H. Gershman
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008-12-12
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780815609346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBesa is a code of honor deeply rooted in Albanian culture and incorporated in the faith of Albanian Muslims. It dictates a moral behavior so absolute that nonadherence brings shame and dishonor on oneself and one’s family. Simply stated, it demands that one take responsibility for the lives of others in their time of need. In Albania and Kosovo, Muslims sheltered, at grave risk to themselves and their families, not only the Jews of their cities and villages, but thousands of Jews fleeing the Nazis from other European countries. Over a five-year period, photographer Norman H. Gershman sought out, photographed, and collected these powerful and moving stories of heroism in Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II. The book reveals a hidden period in history, slowly emerging after the fall of an isolationist communist regime, and shows the compassionate side of ordinary people in saving Jews. They acted within their true Muslim faith.
Author: Harvey Sarner
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a brief history of Albania and calls attention to Albania's role in assisting Jews from persecution during World War II.
Author: Faton Bislimi
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-24
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781661209575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume brings together key articles and documents about the unique role Albanians played in saving 100% of Jews who lived in Albania or who came there to seek refuge during the Holocaust. The book also brings to light the important role ethnic Albanians outside of the Albanian State borders played in facilitating the rescue efforts. It is the Albanian code of honor "besa" which explains why the Albanians would risk their own lives to save those of their guests, i.e. Jews they were sheltering.
Author: Agnes Mangerich
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010-09-12
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0813127424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn November 8, 1943, U.S. Army nurse Agnes Jensen stepped out of a cold rain in Catania, Sicily, into a C-53 transport plane. But she and twelve other nurses never arrived in Bari, Italy, where they were to transport wounded soldiers to hospitals farther from the front lines. A violent storm and pursuit by German Messerschmitts led to a crash landing in a remote part of Albania, leaving the nurses, their team of medics, and the flight crew stranded in Nazi-occupied territory. What followed was a dangerous nine-week game of hide-and-seek with the enemy, a situation President Roosevelt monitored daily. Albanian partisans aided the stranded Americans in the search for a British Intelligence Mission, and the group began a long and hazardous journey to the Adriatic coast. During the following weeks, they crossed Albania's second highest mountain in a blizzard, were strafed by German planes, managed to flee a town moments before it was bombed, and watched helplessly as an attempt to airlift them out was foiled by Nazi forces. Albanian Escape is the suspense-filled story of the only group of Army flight nurses to have spent any length of time in occupied territory during World War II. The nurses and flight crew endured frigid weather, survived on little food, and literally wore out their shoes trekking across the rugged countryside. Thrust into a perilous situation and determined to survive, these women found courage and strength in each other and in the kindness of Albanians and guerrillas who hid them from the Germans.
Author: Masha Gessen
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0805242465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration. In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan.The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there. The state-building ended quickly, in the late 1930s, with arrests and purges instigated by Stalin. But after the Second World War, Birobidzhan received another influx of Jews—those who had been dispossessed by the war. In the late 1940s a second wave of arrests and imprisonments swept through the area, traumatizing Birobidzhan’s Jews into silence and effectively shutting down most of the Jewish cultural enterprises that had been created. Where the Jews Aren’t is a haunting account of the dream of Birobidzhan—and how it became the cracked and crooked mirror in which we can see the true story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia. (Part of the Jewish Encounters series)
Author: Sara Bender
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781584657293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJewish society as an active protagonist in the story of the Holocaust
Author: Jan Gross
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2007-08-14
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0812967461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors “[Fear] culminates in so keen a shock that even a student of the Jewish tragedy during World War II cannot fail to feel it.”—Elie Wiesel FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War, in which 90 percent of the country’s three and a half million Jews perished. Yet despite this unprecedented calamity, Jewish Holocaust survivors returning to their hometowns in Poland after the war were further subjected to terror and bloodshed. The deadliest peacetime pogrom in twentieth-century Europe took place in the Polish town of Kielce on July 4, 1946. In Fear, Jan T. Gross addresses a vexing question: How was this possible? At the center of his investigation is a detailed reconstruction of the Kielce pogrom and how ordinary Poles responded to the spectacle of Jews being murdered by their fellow citizens. Anti-Semitism, Gross argues, became a common currency between the Communist regime and a society in which many were complicit in the Nazi campaign of plunder and murder—and for whom the Jewish survivors were a standing reproach. For more than half a century, the fate of Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland was cloaked in guilt and shame. Writing with passion, brilliance, and fierce clarity, Jan T. Gross brings to light a truth that must never be ignored. Praise for Fear “That a civilized nation could have descended so low . . . such behavior must be documented, remembered, discussed. This Gross does, intelligently and exhaustively.”—The New York Times Book Review “Gripping . . . an especially powerful and, yes, painful reading experience . . . illuminating and searing.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Gross tells a devastating story. . . . One can only hope that this important book will make a difference.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A masterful work that sheds necessary light on a tragic and often-ignored aspect of postwar history.”—Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing . . . Gross supplies impeccable documentation.”—Baltimore Sun “Compelling . . . Gross builds a meticulous case.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)