Besa: The Promise (2012)
• July 19th, 2012 • 1h 26min
Documentary
Overview
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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