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How Muslims in Albania Saved Jews From the Holocaust

Most anywhere else in Nazi-occupied Europe, a run-in with authorities by a Jewish family probably would have resulted in severe malnutrition, eventual starvation, or execution. Not so in Albania. Following the German occupation in 1943, the Albanian population, the majority of whom were Muslims, refused to comply with the occupier’s...

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