Category: Albania

Ambassador Rodkin brought again to the attention of the participants of the Tirana event the fact that Albania was the only country that had more Jews at the end of the Nazi period than at the beginning. Albanians also saved foreign Jews who moved to Albania, he said not sparing gratitude of the Israeli people towards Albanians across their country

In 1943, when Refik Veseli, a photographer’s apprentice, smuggled his mentor Moshe Mandil and Mandil’s family across Albania to escape the Nazis, he didn’t see himself as particularly heroic.

Even in the darkest times, there are heroes—though sometimes they may be the people we least expect.

The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Campus The event celebrates the rescue of thousands of European.

At a meeting with the World Jewish Congress-Israel and the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR) in Jerusalem, Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati spoke of his country’s friendship for Israel and also its wartime history as a sanctuary for Jews fleeing the Holocaust.

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The Albanian Muslims truly live by the Quranic principle, which is also cited in the Talmud, “If one saved a life, it would be as if he saved all humanity.”

Albania and Israel have long discussed opportunities for co-operation in the fields of education, science.

In 1912, Jews participated in the struggle for independence. After 1928, when Albania became a monarchy, many Jews moved there from Greece, again especially from Ioannina. They included pharmacists, doctors and merchants. The 1930 census shows 204 Jews.

This article was published in the January/February 2006 issue of Congress Monthly, the magazine of the American Jewish Congress (New York, New York).