Published: 14 July 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Albania, only country with more Jews after the Holocaust, inaugurates memorial (Times of Israel)
Albania unveiled a Holocaust memorial in the capital on Thursday to honour the dead and the Albanians who protected Jews from the Nazis.
The marble memorial was put at an entrance to Tirana’s Artificial Lake Park, close to Mother Teresa Square. The inscription was written in three languages — English, Hebrew and Albanian — and it said that “Albanians, Christians and Muslims endangered their lives to protect and save the Jews.”
The Nazis murdered 6 million people, but Albania was the only country where no Jews died or were handed over. Albanians protected their few hundred Jewish friends, and helped other Jews who fled from Germany and Austria by either smuggling them abroad or hiding them at home.
A Polish govt institute honours Poles who saved Jews. Scholars say it’s whitewash (Times of Israel)
Critics claim Pilecki Institute’s brief is to publicise heroes and overlook Poles who collaborated with Nazis, but its founder denies ‘any kind of political agenda’
Photo: Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama speaks during the inauguration of a memorial in Tirana, on July 9 (Xhulio Hajdari/Tirana City Hall/AP)
