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The Promise: Why Albanians Saved So Many Jews During World War II
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2020
- While millions of Jews were being exterminated across Europe during Wold War II, many Jewish families found refuge and safety in Albania, despite German occupation. The local Jewish population increased from a few hundred to 2,000. Two Albanians recall how their families sheltered Jews and how a centuries-old tradition called Besa kept them alive.
Originally published at - www.rferl.org/a/the-promise-w...
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Albania is a small territory. but an Albanian person is worth 100. to protect someone else. he also risks himself And open the door of the house without knowing who you are and where you come from proud to be ALBANIA 🇦🇱👑
I'm Albanian myself. This makes me proud of my heritage. I can say that Albanians ( generally) are giving, caring and have the best hospitality. it's how I've been raised. 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
For everybody in the comments, Israel has recognized Kosovo as an independed state!
SHALOM SHALOM 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇽🇰🇦🇱
Yeah but even though Albania and ISrael have excelent relationship.
Kosovo je Srbija ☦️🇷🇸❤️🙏
Po' ti a è pranon kosoven si shtet?????
Most Albanians and balkan people are similar to us Jews Im met lot Albanians, Croats,Macedonians, Greeks, Serbs they all breathe just as much as we Israelis but albanians are the most similar to us
At least do not compare/put us in the same boat with these slavs that we are bordering and greeks as well.
Why am reading the subtitles even thought im Albanian ?
The sub titles were very off. thats probably why some words disnt make sence. I'm albanian so i understand and read the translations also
@@JohnJohn-xh3wz same here I'm also Albanian
Haha I do that all the time and try to find mistakes
As a Serb I respect this.
P off
As an albanian I thank you for the coment
Kudos, Albania and Denmark. The others there are no words to curse them!
Now Kosovo Send Ambassy in Jerusalem Capital City of Israel 🇮🇱❤️🇦🇱🇽🇰❤️
And us serbs? We saved tens of thousands of jews during world war 2. We suffered together in croatian Jasenovac nazi camp.
You forgot it?
@@boxy1375 you gave jews to Nazis, see statistics in Belgrade was a concentration camp..In kosova and Albania wasnt even a camp..cuz we sheltered them in our houses..not only jews but even serbs, remember Boro & Ramiz..Ramiz wasn an albanian who gave Besa to serbian Boro, the nazis wouldnt kill him in his house, otherwise they would die together..So both of them died from Nazis, cuz Ramiz refused to give Boro to germans
O Brother im Muslim and i Love jews Becasue only Albanians know your Pain we Albanians are Discriminated from Europe even why we are The oldest here in Balkan
We have been killed just because we are ALBANIANS = ILLYRIANS ,it doesnt matter what kind of god we belive however we have been killed , and isolated all our lands are stolen not by wars but with Tricks and treachery , Entire Balkan is Jerusalem of Albanians and the god will make that day to see because we Deserve that , we are surving for thousands years from slavics tribes to slavics Nations , ottoman Empire , Greeks etc
Entire Continent against 1 race this is not fair
we never have been weak , but we had to many Enemies ,only god know how we survived so long , being isolated from the world with centuries
Our lands are stolen, our Traditional stuff is stolen , our ancient monuments sculpures are stolen , our Heroes are stolen , our History is Stolen
There is no People in this planet who has suffer more than Albanians=Illyrians
im Muslim and i say this Allah is protector of Innocent and he everytime keep his promise it doesnt matter if you are Christian or Jew or Muslim
i Belive on those words and hope 1 day our Ancient RACE will Rise again
@@donkopower2416 There were no nazi concetration camps ran by serbs. Serbs were against nazi and victims, just like jews and roma. Especially in Jasenovac. Got it finally?
Good job Albania 🇦🇱 Jews are our brothers and sisters and we Muslims must protect them and who ever needs protection💖💖💖
PEPAJ yes I know mate
@P3P4J who cares
@@muhammedm9077 Stop being racist
@P3P4J Yes the entire Albanian community irrespective of religion helped Jews
70 percent of them Muslims and 30 percent were catholics
@@shreyandattagupta4402 you don't even know what racism mean, kid
Shpetove një Njeri ,shpetove Boten, Hebrejt i dhanë Botes shumë ,dhe është një popull shum i zgjuatë ,si Shqipëtaret edhe Hebrenjet kanë Histori të gjatë Me Mija vjeqare SHALOM 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇽🇰🇦🇱
Albanians will be poor by politic of lucky of the evolution but Albanians in general have a great hard but Albanians are unpredictable and in fact let’s hope to develop Albania so people could know better this amazing place of ancient culture !
Love to world !
Great words my brother is true 👏💪
That was beautiful. Besa. I really respect that.
Yes Kosovo Primeminister Give it Besa to Netanyahu to Get New Ambassy in Jerusalem Capital City of Israel 🇮🇱❤️🇦🇱🇽🇰❤️
We love you, faliminderit shummë ❤️
I'm Albanian, this makes me proud too of my heritage!! 😇🥰😍😇✝✡
Still free Palestine
There is little actual understanding of where this comes from. The Kanun does not concern itself with promises, as much as it concerns itself with blood. Besa is not what was given to the Jews. Besa is what what can best be translated as a "vow", and is a concept more related to loyalty. Not sure who started this extremely simplified reasoning about "besa" being the reason, as it is much cool (and a bit weird) in reality. There are two words in Albanian which usually get translated to "friend": The first is the word "mik" and the second is the word "shok". They do not have the same exact meaning though. "Shok" is more close to friend as in English, and "mik" is closer to "guest" in English (there is another modern meaning to the word meaning "inlaws" but that is irrelevant). Blood feuds are infamous in Albania and still go on, and the actual reasons why they start are outlined in the Kanun. What are the Kanun rules to be a "mik" and what does that mean for the Jews? Well, someone needs to knock and the house owner needs to let them in. Meaning that he let them in his house voluntarily. If they have weapons with them, they will be taken by the host. They will be placed in the main seat in the house. Two reasons for this: First to honor them, second so they do not mingle with the girls in the house. They will eat what the host eats. They will get heat, food and shelter. If they leave the house, they can ask to be accompanied up to whatever point they want. Once they are in the host house, whatever crime they do, it is on you. Whatever crime is done on the, it is also on the host to avenge. In fact the husband can kill the wife in two cases only in the Kanun: She is unfaithful, she breaks the rules in protecting the guest (this is referenced as to "cut the guest"). If someone mocks your guest, you would protect their honor with your life. Whoever "guest is cut" (read harmed, or dishonored) is forever shamed, everything will be given to them with the left hand. If the unthinkable happens and the guest is harmed, and the blood is not taken for this, the host is shamed and stripped of all honor, titles. You are forced to avenge the guest, even if the one who harmed them is a friend. It has consequences in the Kanun ways, the most severe ones. So strong is the idea of opening your home in the Kanun that if the host eats before the guest, they are fined. You have to understand that Albania had a provisional Nazi government, made of Albanians collaborating with the Nazi forces. They knew very well that harming the Jews who were sheltered in the homes of Albanians would inevitably result to their own death, or the death of their brothers, or sons as by Kanun laws. They did not want to risk it so they tried to avoid such a conflict as much as possible. There was no need to kill the guest, hitting them would be enough to trigger a bloodshed to remember. They were under the host protection by the very nature of the Albanian culture. "Besa", or the vow to protect, was given to the Jews not by the host. They did not need to. All they had to is say "welcome". Now, saving the Jews might have been the only good thing about the Kanun, which otherwise is medieval law and it is shameful that is still referenced in modern culture to justify murders.
Good explanation for the world!👍
Bravo!!! Thanks for the explanation
Albanian culture, who knew? Thank you very informative
I suggest you to read the LAPOT SERBIA TRADITION, You will be shocked
Besa was a word of honor if you broke besa you and your family would become social pariahs. The Kanun was just a code of law for the very decentralized parts of the country where the government had no real authority and the communities had to enact and enforce their own laws. It’s the same a canon law for tribal societies with no central authority. When you gave besa you were basically just giving your word to keep whatever promise you had made. Besa was definitely important because the country was occupied by the nazis I doubt they cared about starting a blood feud with a bunch of poor people who’s most powerful weapon would have been a bolt action rifle against the german military
What an amazing culture. Very impressive and moving.
BESA🇦🇱
My father was born in Feb 1943 in Albania, and at that time my grans were hiding a Jewish family somewhere from ex Yugoslavia. The lady of this jewish family apart from her own children took care of my father too. My family used to make fun later on of my father calling him “The Jew” of the home! This family made it safe after the war, and I’m pretty sure that they were treated as part of our family without asking nothing in return, but unfortunately due to the 45 years of communist isolation we lost track of them! I was trying in vain to get any facts or details about this family, but we didn’t have photo or any fact about them! Albania became nevertheless a safe heaven for those Jews who entered the country and this makes me feel proud about our history
That is a super interesting story, do you remember their last name? We can take a look.
Im proud to be albanian and im keep my besa to
Besa in Greek means the same.
Bravo to Albanians. I'm trying to find same stories and I end up to Albania.
Thanks for been Besa.
Yes but Besa is a Albanian word from Illirian
@@killuminati6229 good things spread to good people.
another story that I found was the Island of Zakynthos. All Jewish saved by the mayor and the priest.
look for the movie Happy days.
the Jews in Salonika Greece was rounded up by the Bulgarian army that collaborated with the Nazis,
@@KreshnikElRum religions have nothing to do with BESA.
search Zakyntos Jews and you will find another BESA place.
@@nothingishere111 Besa derives from the albanian word besoj which means to believe so you give somebody a reason to believe you
your besa
Besim means belief
Besa means promise based on trust
Yeah in fact the whole albanian language is greek. Please stop this bullshit besa is 100% albanian and nothing else.
Saving lifes doesn't matter were are they from.
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yoo wassup
This gave me goosebumps
Here in New York, Albanians and Jews love each other as if they were brothers they deserving each other because they are similar and intolerable people to me
Dardania is Illyrian go eat a donkey d
you traitor
The most intolerable peoples in the planet , serbs
That’s because you are a Serb
Israeli ppl are our brothers and sisters forever
Jewish people yes, but not genocidal Israel under Netanyahu.
Amazing
Beso, what an interesting concept.
besa is not just a code of honor, but a culture developed over thousands of years
Besa means honor, Beso means believe.
PROUD KOSOV ALBANIA
We Albanians are awesome. Bad that serbia , greece and most of balkan dont think so
Its not that they don't think so, they know it well and always have misused it.
Hmmmm but I thought Greece loved us
@@chair2772 no, they hate us
@@chair2772 greeks love albanians but we did have many Albanians outlaws that take advantage of the pewcefull people in Greece.
In my village that is in South Greece ( messinia) we have more albanians than Greeks and they all doing very well.
without the albanians my village will be deserted.
@@nothingishere111
there is no bad Greeks and no good Greeks, nor bad Albanians or good Albanians.
but there are good people and bad people
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Besa ❤️
Jews in Ottoman:
Among the few inhabitants of Constantinople ( after victory of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmet-II, Ottoman Sultan) to have survived the Turkish seizure of the city were the Jews of the Balat quarter. Not long after the appointment of Gennadius ( the priest, first patriarch of Orthodox welcomed by Mehmed, after fall of Constantinople in 1453 ) or perhaps at the same time, Mehmed also selected a chief rabbi to preside over all the Jewish congregations of Turkey. His choice fell on Moshe Capsali, a man of piety and learning, founder of a celebrated family of scholars; Elijah Capsali, who in the sixteenth century wrote a Hebrew history of the Ottoman Empire that is still awaiting publication, may have been descended from him. The sultan, we are told, even made him a member of the imperial council
(divan) , where he was honored by a seat next to the mufti, thus gaining precedence over the Greek patriarch; furthermore, he delegated to Capsali certain political powers over the Jewish congregations of Turkey. It was Moshe Capsali who assigned the taxes to be paid individually or collectively by the Jews, appointed officials to collect them, and transmitted
the proceeds to the sultan's treasury. He also possessed penal authority over all members of the Jewish community and the right to confirm the appointment of rabbis. In a word, he was the head and official representative of the Jewish community in the Ottoman Empire.
Under the Conqueror, if the accounts of Jewish contemporaries are to be believed, Turkey was a paradise for the Jews, who were cruelly oppressed in Western Europe. Jewish emigrants from Germany were overjoyed at the favored position of the Jews in Turkey. They were free to
live and trade as they pleased. There was no "golden penny" to pay, no crown taxes amounting to a third of their fortune. They could dispose freely of their property and dress as they saw fit, in silk and satin if they wished. Their enterprise found rich sources of profit, though it is true that they were soon obliged to limit their activities to commerce and moneylending. In 1454 Isaac Sarfati, a Jew born in Germany of French descent, sent a circular letter to the Jews of the Rhineland, Swabia, Styria, Moravia, and Hungary in which he spoke with enthusiasm of the fortunate conditions of the Jews under the Crescent in contrast to their yoke under the Cross, and encouraged his coreligionaries to leave the "great torture chamber" and come to Turkey. The years that followed witnessed a massive emigration of Jews to the Turkish paradise, especially from Germany. Certain countries, Italy in particular, prevented their Jews from leaving."
" There can be no doubt about Mehmed's religious tolerance. If even a part of what Isaac Sarfati wrote from Turkey in his circular letter of 1454 to the Jews of Central Europe about the favorable situation of his
coreligionaries under the Crescent was true, Mehmed's empire must have been a paradise for non-Moslem subjects (reaya) , especially Jews. Turkey, Sarfati wrote, was a country where nothing was lacking. Every man could spend his life unmolested under his fig tree and his vine. In judging this letter with its invitation to emigrate to the Ottoman Empire, we must not, of course, forget that the situation of the Jews in Central Europe
in the middle of the fifteenth century was particularly wretched, that they were subject to incessant persecution, and that measured by these conditions, Turkey, where no one was molested for his faith, could promise a truly blissful life. It must also be borne in mind that in his commercial undertakings and his fiscal policy, Mehmed preferred to rely on the help of Jews, including his physician Maestro lacopo, whom he sometimes, to the dissatisfaction of the Moslems, employed as his financial adviser. But
also in Christian quarters, as it is more than once confirmed, each man could "seek salvation in his own way," complete religious freedom prevailed, and no one incurred serious difficulties because of his faith. There can be no doubt that the Christian inhabitants of places far from the seat of government were often oppressed and unjustly treated, but it is equally certain that this was not the work of the supreme authorities. The truly magnanimous treatment of non-Moslems in the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed can in large measure be attributed to his indulgence and mildness in religious matters, qualities which were in all likelihood closely
related to his own liberal ideas on religion."
Book: Mehmed the
conqueror and
his time
Author: Franz
Babinger
Edited: William C
Hickman
Translator: Ralph
Manheim
Edition: 1978
Page: 106,107,412
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And now they can’t recognize Kosovo as a state. It’s disgusting how we’ve been pressed and put down for centuries.
@Martin Parvanov LMAO, no.
Not anymore 🎉🎉🎉
@Martin Parvanov Hahahahah don't be ridiculous slavic man pretend to be Macedonian 🤣🤣🤣😮
@Martin Parvanov Serbia doesn’t exist, you are part of Ilyria
@Martin Parvanov half Bulgaria and half Albania
thx to king zog that opened his border for jewish refugees
🇦🇱❤️🇽🇰❤️🇦🇱❤️🇽🇰besa
Thank you for sharing. Valuable but unfortunately not promoted enough. There are, unfortunately, some shows and movies like the recent serbian tv show called Besa that hiject Besa (the Albanian Code of Honor) from its natural realm of Justice, Honor and Humanity and put it into the the realm of mafia and criminals, giving it negative connotations and promoting it as a property of mafia and criminals. In that show, there are only a few Albanian good guys, the rest of villans are Albanians (mafia and gangsters). While on one hand I am not one of those people who believe that crime-ganster-mafia shows like this one should be banned (bcs they are in essence anti-albanjan propaganda), I believe that those positive aspects of Albanian cultures (like authentic Besa, which is based on Justice and Honor, NOT blood feud/ vendetta per se) like this documentary above, should be made more visible and take much more media and public space than those naive and tasteless anti-albanian propaganda shows and movies that reduce Besa and any other Albanian cultural aspect to mafia and crime, spread in shows and movies like the recent serbian tv show called Besa, the "Taken" movie trilogy, or any other tv show or movie where most Albanians are bad guys (mafia and criminals). I think any intellegent person would like to see both sides of any coin.
Well of course they aren't good guys, have you heard about the Albanian mafia?? Just look at what they're doing in Italy, the UK and the Netherlands to name a few. They arewaging a drug war which is going on for decades now.
Jews in Christian Byzantine Empire :
" The Jews in Galata often petty restrictions , such as not being allowed to ride on horseback , and occasional harrasment from their neighbours:
''' For their condition is very low and there is much hatred against them , which is fostered by the tanners, who throw out their dirty water in the streets before the doors of the Jewish houses and defile the Jews quarter. So, the Greeks hate the Jews, good and bad alike, and subject them to great oppression, and beat them in the streets and in every way treat them with rigour.'''
There were even some examples of officially sanctioned persecution, as under Romanos I Lekapenos ( 920-44 ). There was, however, never anything in byzantium along the lines of the savage pogroms perpetrated against the Jews in England, Germany, and elsewhere in western Europe at the time of crusades."
BOOK : CONSTANTINOPLE capital of byzantium
AUTHOR : Jonathan Harris
EDITION : 2007
page : 135
C'mon Zahir, why don't you check your quran and sunnah about treatment reserved for jews.. If you follow your humanity good, but if you follow your pedofet you should be doing what he says!! - that's your true religion, not just a name!! What do you do with this?
Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: You will fight against the Jews and you will kill them until even a stone would say: Come here, Muslim, there is a Jew (hiding himself behind me) ; kill him." -Sahih Muslim 2921a
Salam alaykom peace be with you all
IAM inviting you all too Islam their is only one God almighty God everlasting ..
And Mohammed is the final prophet Messenger follow Mohammed .
God May Bless every Jewish life in the intire World!God May Bless all Albanians no matter their religion for saving the lifes of Jewish families, those Jewish families that were killed and kicked out from Greece and Serbia to the safe Albanian land !
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Besa bes now i understand ,sorry for all my shiptars❤
Do not ..DOOO NOTTT ever again use our word Besa,it is disgraceful,offensive and very disturbing when said by you slavs and we do not want anything to do with your kind,so p off and do not engage with us on any topic.
Srry to interrupt this moments but albania has changed a lot since then and it has changed for bad but Kosovo the neighbor country is better and wholsome
O ta qifshin derrat fisin dhe te vdekurit ne varre ty!
O kara ky mir e tha sepse shqiptaret e shqiperis pas regjimit te ati gjakqimit monster Enver Hoxhes, kan ndryshuar pak, nuk jeni shumë bujarë siq keni qenë psh ne mikpritje, besë etj dhe ju vet e pranoni, psh neve sna pritni siq duhet kur vim ne pushime verore tek nena shqiperi etj 🤣🤣, por nese bashkohemi behemi prap siq kemi qenë para se me na nda ndytsirat europiane, behemi ma mir ne qdo sferë per gjith shqiptaret kudo qe jetojmë ne trojet tona.
Z. Bled Kari, Kosova nuk osht shtet tjeter po osht veq veriu i Shqiperis🇦🇱🦅
@@blockie9706 nese s'te duket mikpritje 1 miljon nga Kosova te strehuar ne 99-ten, cari lesht ... dhe shkruaj Shqiperia me germe te madhe o kar!
@@pollog9328 Ti vertet qenke kar, a e lexove mir qka thash? strehimin per refugjat e kan ba edhe maqedont qysh po ta merr mendja ty shqiptart mos me rrujt leshin hiq a, edhe siriant kur ataturqit i kan maskaru greket e anadollit i kan strehu, kjo eshte njerzore vetem i ligu e permend. Ata qe s'jeni e thash per pushime verore, dhe e thash per permisim dhe kritika duhet te pranohet, po ti pa mundu me gjet diqka se len,,,, SHQIPERIA🇦🇱🦅 e shkruva me te madhe.
Save Palestine request to jews
They are fighting terrorism and fighting for they're existence as always
Jew gold is a valuable currency!
Hand over the Jew gold, Kyle.
We Albanians are regretting this very much
I don‘t. long life Israel 🇦🇱🇮🇱❤️
Shanu Aaliyah's Fan B.RovaidYousaf.S
there are no real muslims here, religion is more like a fashion than a believe in Albania.
Shanu Aaliyah's Fan B.RovaidYousaf.S
yes because we don‘t care about religions that much. When you ask me, I say I‘m muslim. But do I know how to pray? Do I know some prayers? did I ever have read the quran? Did I ever saw a mosque from inside? All questions I have to answer with no.
Shanu Aaliyah's Fan B.RovaidYousaf.S
why should I lie... I believe in god, and god loves all human, no matter what religion. God doesn‘t care what religion you have, god cares about your actions. Don‘t harm other people, don‘t kill, don‘t steal, do good and help the poor and you will enter paradise.
@@shaclo1512 heke ate flamur se po ndihmojne serbin
Israeli don't recognize our independence now ungrateful
Israel recognizes Kosovo
Israel recognized us you FOOOOOOOOL who learned two english words,and talking SHIT here
Stfu kid they do
That's kinda cringe Albania.
Why
What cringe are you talking about? Helping people?
We did but we do not condone the killings of innocent Palestinians,
.
What about innocent israelis ?
Jews saved albanians in Kosova too and we will never forget that. The jewish lop was in Kosovas side. They open the doors for kosovars to USA CONGRES AND SENAT. Eliot Engel is a loved and wellknown name among albanians. And many American senators too helped Kosovas people. So its equally in both sides. And eventhough State of Israel did take to long to recognise Kosovas indipedence they still helped a lot during times. Imposible to forget Netanyahus speech during Kosovas war where serbia with a lot of help of russis and msny arab muslim and african countrys who sent a lot of weapons to serbs ..did a lot of atrocities against albanian civilians in Kosova but Netanyahu and his governent took stand against civilian massacres comitrd by serbia and supported albanians. God bless Jewish people
respect israel love jews i have hude respect i am albanian orthodox christian and am gonna learn Judaism and i wanna convert
@@speeddemon8977kadal be bir, mos po gutesh pak si shum