Commemorating the Holocaust

This statistic published in a documentary only confirms one of the merits that have been recognized to the Albanian people. Defending the Jewish people from the nazi prosecution during WWII.

“Einstein stayed three days in Albania, received the Albanian passport and left for the three world”, the documentary says among other things.

One big value that made small Albania enter the glorious history is its people opening their homes to shelter thousands of Jewish families.

“These values were should serve to commemorate the energy of our nation’s development”, declared the Foreign Minister, Damian Gjiknuri, in an activity that the Foreign Ministry organized for the International Day for the Commemoration of the Holocaust.

“We need to cultivate these values and turn them into energy for the development of our country”, Bushati declared.

Testimonies were brought by descendants of the Jewish people who found shelter in Albania.

“This happened because of Albania and the Albanian people, this European country”, declared one of the people who were present.

“The Holocaust is a unique crime, but it is not the only one. Only a few decades after the WWII, the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and Bosnia showed that Europe had not taken the right lessons”, Bushati declared.

“The policy of divisive walls keeps reminding us that our region, regardless of the progress, has not reached the point of non return yet, and the final anchorage in the European waters”, Bushati declared.

Since 2005, January 27th has been decided in the international calendar as the day for the victims of Holocaust, for which Albania and the Jews that found shelter here, have much to remember.

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