Besa: The Promise

Besa: The Promise (2012)

July 19th, 20121h 26min

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A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees during WWII at their own risk, and trying to help the son of an Albanian baker that housed a Jewish family for a year return some Hebrew books that the family had to leave behind.


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