Besa: The Promise

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2012 / 86min.

Rating10

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Rachel Goslins

Actors

Rexhep Hoxha

Norman H. Gershman

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