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Originally Posted by marko.t
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First off, wikipedia is not a credible source as anyone with a net connection can edit the information, in anyway anyone pleases.
Second, the numbers you presented, it was only mention how many jews were killed, not how many that lived there.
Moreover,WHY WOULD Israeli for one have an exhibition that honors Albanian Muslims who saved Jews during WW2???
READ>>>> Albania, a small and mountainous country on the southeast coast of the Balkan peninsula, was home to a population of 803,000. Of those only two hundred were Jews. After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, many Jews found refuge in Albania. No accurate figures exist regarding their number; however, different sources estimate that 600-1,800 Jewish refugees entered that country from Germany, Austria, Serbia, Greece and Yugoslavia, in the hope to continue on to the Land of Israel or other places of refuge.
Following the German occupation in 1943, the Albanian population, in an extraordinary act, refused to comply with the occupier’s orders to turn over lists of Jews residing within the country’s borders. Moreover, the various governmental agencies provided many Jewish families with fake documentation that allowed them to intermingle amongst the rest of the population. The Albanians not only protected their Jewish citizens, but also provided sanctuary to Jewish refugees who had arrived in Albania, when it was still under Italian rule, and now found themselves faced with the danger of deportation to concentration camps.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_yad/..._Gershman.html
You see, they risked their own lives, even though they knew they would face death if someone found out that they were hiding Jews.