Category: Albania

By George E. Johnson Few Americans have heard of Besa, but Besa is the reason.

By Laura Koran, CNN (CNN) – How many people would lay down their lives for.

How many times have you gone to synagogue on Friday night for Kabbalat Shabbat, and.

There may have been settlements of Jews in the northern region of Albania since early.

By Sharon Smullen, Special to The Eagle Pittsfield — A Nazi transport pulls into an.

֡n 1990, the late Congressman Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, and former Congressman Joe DioGuardi,.

By Liam Hoare eJewish Philanthropy My journey through the Balkans last autumn came to an.

Article by Eran Haklai, at Lifestyle Magazine/The writer is a tour guide and lecturer at.

Albanians’ strong traditions inspired them to save their nation’s Jews during the Holocaust. Albania, the only Muslim-majority country in Europe, was also the only European nation to emerge from the Holocaust with a larger Jewish population.