Albania honors locals who rescued Jews during the Holocaust with memorial
The Albanians protected the Jews despite Nazi German forces occupying the country.
Beqir Xhepa, 80, an Albanian who was caught as a partisan courier by the Germans during World War Two and sent to the concentration camps at Mathausen and Auschwitz, points at himself in a picture taken when he was a prisoner, in Tirana, January 27, 2005(photo credit: REUTERS)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF