Tag: Yad Vashem
Holocaust Forum, President Promotes Fight to Antisemitism
President of the Republic, Ilir Meta declared this Thursday that Antisemitism must be fought through education, promotion of dialogue and mutual respect in the framework of human rights. This statement of President of Albania came during Fifth World Holocaust Forum of January 22-23, 2020, at Yad Vashem memorial, which he attended by invitation of Israel’s President, Reuven Rivlin
Cakaj in Israel, Honors Holocaust Victims
Acting Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Gent Cakaj held a visit this Wednesday at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
Nuro Hoxha, Albanian teacher who rescued Jews during the Holocaust
Nuro Hoxha was a well-respected teacher in the village of Tërbaç, near Vlorë in Albania. In September 1943, when the Germans occupied Albania, Hoxha went to warn his long-time friend Ilia Solomoni of the danger to the Jews. Solomoni had nowhere to go and did not know what to do, so Hoxha offered to hide Solomoni and his family in his two-storey house in Tërbaç.
Jews in Albania
By Yael Weinstock Mashbaum Introduction In our last newsletter we addressed Jews from the southeastern European.