Holocaust against Jews and the fate of Albanians in extermination camps, in an exhibition
Culture |Tirana,
27/January/2022
The National Historical Museum in cooperation with two cultural organizations have opened a special exhibition during the Holocaust week, dedicated to the fate of Albanians during the Nazi and communist persecution.
Organizers have invited hundreds of young people from the capital to learn about the tragic events of World War II in Albanian and Jewish families who survived Nazism. The exhibition at the National Historical Museum is being visited by groups of young people from high schools, who come out of it with strong impressions, as they hear more details about the tragic events of the Albanian nation.
Albanians rescued over 3,500 Jews during World War II, while several hundred Albanians were killed by the Nazis in the infamous Mathausen camp.These historical exhibitions are being visited by high school youth, where they are learning how Nazism and Communism are two culminating totalitarian events.
The director of the National Historical Museum, Dorian Koçi, says that these developments must be studied constantly and in detail, and never forgotten, and the world memory is dedicated to that darkness of human reason.
Chargé d’Affaires Demian Smith attended “The Fates of Albanian who survived the Mauthausen Camp” exhibition today, held in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The exhibition is part of a two-year project which aims to keep alive memories and stories of people by documenting the fate of Albanians who were arrested by Nazi Germany during 1943-1944 in Albania and sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Part of the exhibition is the “From Hell to Hell” documentary, which tells the stories of eight people who were arrested by the Germans in the cities of Tirana, Vlora, Durres, Permet, and Korca, and then sent to the death camp of Mauthausen. They managed to survive and returned home, but in Albania another dictatorship was installed that time.
On this important day, and every day, we affirm our commitment to a world free of anti-Semitism and other forms of ethnic or religious intolerance. We should never forget, never again,”writes US Embassy.
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