During the Day of Remembrance the Jewish Museum of Bologna (as the Jewish Museum Carlo e Vera Wagner of Trieste) dedicates an exhibition organized by the Yad Vashem The Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, the Albanian code of honor, the "Besa", in memory of the Albanians who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust . the respective sites of the museum is an interesting reconstruction of this story, very little known to most and who deserves to be known. In Albania, overwhelmingly Muslim country, in fact, lived only a few hundred Jews of about 800 thousand inhabitants. But after 1933, the year of Hitler's rise to the chancellorship in Germany, Albania offered hospitality and protection to a thousand Jewish refugees who come not only from Germany but also from countries that were undergoing or about to suffer the invasion of German troops (Austria, Serbia, Greece), while in other European countries wherever applied racial laws with the complicity or simply in the silence of the majority of citizens. The
Albania instead welcomed asylum seekers and refused to surrender to the Nazi-fascist lists with the names of Jews who lived in the country. Not only that, but many agencies governments to ensure many Jewish refugees false documents that allowed them to "blend" between the Albanian population. It should be recalled that in 1939 Albania was under Italian occupation and in 1938 in Italy - and therefore also in all the territories of his "empire" - had come into force fascist racial laws. So be a citizen of Albania and jew meant deportation to Nazi death camps.
"Besa" reads the introduction to the exhibition in Bologna, "is a noble promise bound by moral choices based on a high sense of honor and human justice. It is a concept that is established on the ancient code of the Albanian under which commits every Albanian provide assistance to any individual in situations of need, regardless of its status as cultural, religious, ethnic, social, age, etc. ". . In the words of the son of the Albanian family Vasheli, honored by Yad Vashem, the title of Righteous Among nations for saving many Jews, "Our first house is the house of God, then the guest house, then the family house. The Koran teaches us that all
people - Jews, Christians , Muslims - are under one God ".
" The very concept of "Besa" - continues at the site - not have much to do with religion itself as the virtues of courage, compassion, honor, tolerance and sacrifice that characterize the Albanian code of honor, is in fact the o Rigine values \u200b\u200bcharacteristic of the history of all Albanians. 'Besa' it is rooted the code of conduct that the Albanian Kanun , a set of rules that have been codified p er the first time since Prince Leke Dukagjini, around the end of the fifteenth century. Dukagjini was a friend and fight the great Albanian hero Gjergij Kastrioti said ' Skanderberg ' [in Italian known as George Castriota Scanderberg ] che combattè fieramente fino al 1468 per difendere l'Albania e l'Europa dall'invasione dei Turchi Ottomani" .
Albania instead welcomed asylum seekers and refused to surrender to the Nazi-fascist lists with the names of Jews who lived in the country. Not only that, but many agencies governments to ensure many Jewish refugees false documents that allowed them to "blend" between the Albanian population. It should be recalled that in 1939 Albania was under Italian occupation and in 1938 in Italy - and therefore also in all the territories of his "empire" - had come into force fascist racial laws. So be a citizen of Albania and jew meant deportation to Nazi death camps.
"Besa" reads the introduction to the exhibition in Bologna, "is a noble promise bound by moral choices based on a high sense of honor and human justice. It is a concept that is established on the ancient code of the Albanian under which commits every Albanian provide assistance to any individual in situations of need, regardless of its status as cultural, religious, ethnic, social, age, etc. ". . In the words of the son of the Albanian family Vasheli, honored by Yad Vashem, the title of Righteous Among nations for saving many Jews, "Our first house is the house of God, then the guest house, then the family house. The Koran teaches us that all
people - Jews, Christians , Muslims - are under one God ". " The very concept of "Besa" - continues at the site - not have much to do with religion itself as the virtues of courage, compassion, honor, tolerance and sacrifice that characterize the Albanian code of honor, is in fact the o Rigine values \u200b\u200bcharacteristic of the history of all Albanians. 'Besa' it is rooted the code of conduct that the Albanian Kanun , a set of rules that have been codified p er the first time since Prince Leke Dukagjini, around the end of the fifteenth century. Dukagjini was a friend and fight the great Albanian hero Gjergij Kastrioti said ' Skanderberg ' [in Italian known as George Castriota Scanderberg ] che combattè fieramente fino al 1468 per difendere l'Albania e l'Europa dall'invasione dei Turchi Ottomani" .
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