Albanians and Jews in the Second World War, a scientific conference

On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Shoah) an international scientific conference on "Albanians and Jews in the Second World War" was held. The conference by the Academy of Sciences was organized in cooperation with Israel House of Albania, in honor and reflection on Remembrance Day, the day of tribute to over 6 million human lives lost due to racial hatred expressed in the Nazi formula "final eradication". The president of ASH Skënder Gjinushi said that our Academy of Sciences, like its sisters in Europe and the world, has as its basic mission the cultivation and development of scientific truths, including historical ones. According to Gjinushi, she with priority and with a lot of responsibility, through publications and conferences organized by her, has highlighted some of the national moral and political values ??of the Albanian society and people, such as anti-fascism during the Second World War, the European and unique character of the Albanian identity, the unity of the Albanian literary language, religious convergence and coexistence, which constitute coherent causes and our constants. "And of the same order is for us the inauguration of human values ??related to the common resistance and coexistence of Albanians with Jews during the Shoah, as two peoples who resisted Nazi-fascist violence together in our country and did not sell each other. We do not consider the Holocaust to be an archived issue or simply a matter of history," he said. Further in his speech in the presence of researchers and academic historians, Gjinushi continued that ASH is ready to cooperate with all the country's institutions for passports and memorial signs dedicated to the 3750 Jews who entered and survived Albania during the Second World War, for honoring several hundred Albanian families hosting them in that dangerous period; specifically for a memorial dedicated to the 17 Jewish martyrs of the anti-fascist war who fought alongside the Albanians for the freedom of our people. According to him, all these data can and should be deposited in the National Museum of Jewish Culture that is being built in Vlora, in a special vault. for honoring several hundred Albanian families who hosted them in that dangerous period; specifically for a memorial dedicated to the 17 Jewish martyrs of the anti-fascist war who fought alongside the Albanians for the freedom of our people. According to him, all these data can and should be deposited in the National Museum of Jewish Culture that is being built in Vlora, in a special vault. for honoring several hundred Albanian families who hosted them in that dangerous period; specifically for a memorial dedicated to the 17 Jewish martyrs of the anti-fascist war who fought alongside the Albanians for the freedom of our people. According to him, all these data can and should be deposited in the National Museum of Jewish Culture that is being built in Vlora, in a special vault.