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German school named for Albanian who saved Jews sends students to Tirana for Holocaust remembrance

Students from Berlin and Tirana schools commemorated Holocaust victims with ceremonies and educational events to combat rising antisemitism, involving around 150 participants.

TIRANA, Albania — Sixteen-year-old Melisa Malo, a 10th-grader at the Gjimnazi Sami Frashëri here, first learned about the Holocaust four years ago when she attended an Albanian-language stage performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” That evening, her parents told her how ordinary Muslims and Christians in Albania — an isolated Balkan nation with no more than 300 native Jews — risked their lives during World War II to hide nearly 2,000 foreign J…

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency broke the news in on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
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