[sologoub]

From the wikipedia article linked above:

"In 1944, an Albanian Waffen-SS division was formed, which arrested and handed over to the Germans a further 281 Jews from Kosovo who were subsequently deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where many were killed."

WW2 was a deplorable part of Europe's history and I honestly don't think there is a place not mired in some kind of tragedy from that period...

[tpllaha]

If you read the paragraph before that sentence, you'll se that this part refers to Kosovo albanians (so in Kosovo, not Albania). Though the culture and heritage between the two countries is similar, there are actually no cases of Jews that were given up in Albania, a fact which I find interesting, because no other country in Europe has such clear statistics. The way most people helped Jews in Albania was by not only offering them a home, but also giving them albanian names and teaching them albanian customs and the language, so they would blend in . Additionally, there have also been many reports of locals sending anonymous threatening letters to officials who were looking for the refugees.