BESA: A Code of Honour: November-December 2015

This exhibit from Yad Vashem features photographs by the American photographer Norman Gershman of Muslim Albanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. The only European country with a Muslim majority succeeded where other European nations failed: Almost all Jews living within its borders during the Nazi occupation, those of Albanian origin and the many Jewish refugees who poured into the country alike were saved — except the members of only one family. In fact, there were more Jews in Albania at the end of the war than there were beforehand.