May 5, 2015
Albania's History of Saving Jews
International leaders have been marking 70 years since the liberation of Jews and others from Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe. Recent camps that have been highlighted have been Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau. Little has been said about Treblinka and the thousands of Jews from the former Yugoslavia who lost their lives there. Nor have we heard much about the more than 40,000 concentration camps and ghettos that were established by the Nazis, while they focused on killing as many Jews as possible in the worst genocide ever to take place on Earth.
Global Jewish statistics estimate that there were 17-19 million Jews living before the Holocaust. There are 12-15 million Jews living today. As one Yad Vashem guide put it, “We are not caught up to where we were before.”
There is a silver lining in these remembrance days of the horrors of the Holocaust, and that is the courage of the Righteous among the Gentiles who gave Jews refuge during...(Read Full Article)