Refuge

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An original play created by Blessed Unrest (USA) & Teatri Oda (Kosova).Baruch Performing Arts Center, NYC, April 25–May 11 - WHY THIS STORY NEEDS TO BE TOLDAlbania was the only country in Europe with more Jews at the end of World War II than at the beginning. Why? Besa.The virtually unknown story of Albanians welcoming and protecting Jews, even when under Nazi occupation, is a reminder of the best of human nature and a call to action. Albanians across the Balkans took in people with whom they did not share language, religion, or culture, sheltered them as honored guests, and defended th ...

Read More em with their lives. Not one Jew was taken to a concentration camp from Albania during the war.The Albanian tradition of besa – the ethos that led them to welcome thousands of Jews fleeing from all over Europe while others, including the USA, were turning them away – flies in the face of the current rise of right

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