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17.8.2020. 9:59
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This Holocaust survivor turned  architect designed a memorial  honoring Albanians who saved  Jews

BY JOSEFIN DOLSTEN 


(JTA) — In the world of New York architecture, Stephen B. Jacobs is known for his multimillion-dollar creations, such as the Hotel Gansevoort, a swanky boutique hotel with a rooftop bar that was the first luxury hotel in the city’s trendy Meatpacking District.
But Jacobs recently finished a much different project — and charged nothing.

For several years he worked to design a Holocaust memorial for Albania’s capital. Unveiled last month at the entrance to the Grand Park of Tirana, the simple memorial features three stone plaques — in Albanian, English and Hebrew — that highlight the stories of Albanians who saved Jews during World War II.

U svijetu arhitekture u New Yorku Stephen B. Jacobs je puznat po svojim kreacijama milijunskih vrijednosti kao što je hotel Gansevoort, butik hotel sa barom na krovu- prvim luksuznim hotelima . Ali je u posljednje vrijeme Jacobs završio posve drugačiji projekt- i nije ništa naplatio.


 Nekoliko godina on je radio na stvaranju Holokaust memorijala u glavnom gradu Albanije. Memorijalje otkrivenptošlog mjeseca na ulazu u Grand Parku Tirani. To je jednostavna memorijalna površina od tri kamena na albanskom, engleskom i hebrejskom jeziku koja  je posvećena Albancima koji su spasili Židove u II. Svjetskom ratu.

On se složio s time da radi na memorijalu nakon što je saznao da je Albanija bila jedina zemlja u Europi koja je imala višŽidova nakon rata nego prije njega jer nije predala ni jednog Židova nacistima, stotine su došle iz drugih zemalja gdje im je dana zaštita u toj pretežno muslimanskoj zemlji.Jacobs  rođen u Lodzuje sam Holokaust preživjeli koji je kao dijete  bio u nacističkim logorima 

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Born Stefan Jakubowicz in the Polish city of Lodz, Jacobs and his secular family would move to Piotrków — a city that became home to the Nazis’ first ghetto. The ghetto, which housed 25,000 people, was liquidated in 1942.

Jacobs and his family — his parents, older brother, grandfather and three aunts — eventually were sent to concentration camps. The males went to Buchenwald, the females to Ravensbruck. He was only 5 years old at the time.

Miraculously, all of Jacobs’ immediate family survived the war, though his grandmother died shortly after the camps were liberated. The family left for Switzerland, where they lived for three years. In 1948 they moved to the United States, settling in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood.

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