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Albanija je spasila Židove
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Casting Light on Little-Known Story of Albania Rescuing Jews From Nazis
By JOSEPH BERGER, published: November 18, 2013
There were a handful of European nations where the Nazi killing machine sputtered, but few seem more remarkable and less illuminated than Albania. 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. The country also helped spirit hundreds more over from Nazi-occupied Balkan lands.
Arsllan Rezniqi rode in the back of a
car used to transport Jews from Nazi-occupied Macedonia to safe
hide-outs. A truck was also used and over time, Mr. Rezniqi moved 400
Jews to Decan, in Kosovo.
Malo je Europskih
nacija u kojima nije uspjela nacistička ubilačka mašinerija, malo je
njih značajnijih, ali manje poznatih nego što je Albanija. Pomoću
domaćih Albanaca Židovi su premještani od mjesta do mjesta kako bi
izbjegli hapšenja. Albanija je spasila oko 200 svojih Židova i još 400
židovskih izbjeglica porijeklom iz Njemačke i Austrije. Zemlja je također
donijela nadu za preko više stotina iz balkanskih zemalja okupiranih
od nacista.
"Albanija je jedina Europska zemlja koja je imala više Židova na kraju rata, nego na njegovom početku" rekao je Michael Berenbaum, nekadašnji direktor Holokaust Muzeja. Potpuna slika o tom spašavanju se pojavila tek u ranim 90-tim godinama , nakon kolapsa specijalno opasne i represivne komunističke vlade, i koja je potvrđena u Yad Vashemu te Istraživačkom insitutu Holokaust muzeja u 2007. godini . Priča će biti će ponovno ispričana na 8. prosinca u "Museum of Jewish Heritage" u New Yorku, gdje će govornici biti i potomci albanskih spašenika i spasitelja. Albanija ima praktični razlog zašto želi da se ta priča sazna , jer traži članstvo u Europskoj Uniji, ali su njene šanse umanjene zbog korupcije. Albanija je obećala "očistiti" vladu, te epizoda o albanskoj velikodušnosti također pokazuje kako drži svoja obećanja.
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The story of the rescue, said Ferit Hoxha, the Albanian ambassador to the United Nations, shows that “although we were closed under one of the fiercest Communist regimes, this nation’s people are noble and as able to deliver with courage as anyone else in Europe.” In much of Europe, the Final Solution was remarkably efficient: 90 percent of Poland’s 3.3 million Jews were killed, 88 percent of Germany’s 240,000 Jews, 77 percent of Greece’s 70,000 Jews, with similarly chilling tolls elsewhere.
The exceptional difference in Albania, experts on the episode say, was rooted in a national creed called besa that obligates Albanians to provide shelter and safe passage for anyone seeking protection, particularly if there has been a promise to do so. Failure to act results in a loss of honor and standing. “It involves uncompromising protection of a guest, even at the point of forfeiting one’s own life,” wrote Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi, an organizer of the New York event whose husband, former Representative Joseph H. DioGuardi, visited Albania in the early 1990s and helped unearth details of the rescue...
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