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At a time of rising Islamophobia as well as anti-Semitism both at home and abroad, Stephen B. Jacobs says the world must never forget how the predominantly Muslim nation of Albania told its wartime Nazi occupiers in no uncertain terms: Leave our Jews alone.
As a 5-year-old boy from the Polish city of Lodz, Jacobs had already survived the horrors of the Piotrków ghetto prior to its liquidation in 1942, as well as Germany’s infamous Buchenwald concentration camp, before ending up in the camp hospital’s tuberculosis ward. But he wasn’t sick. His father, a physician, had arranged to hide him and another boy there knowing no German would enter such a place until Buchenwald’s lib
An Unexpected Foray into Albania
Maria Silver, at right, and Dolores Brown toast their renewed friendship at the Mullixhiu Restaurant.
Courtesy of Dolores Brown
Courtesy of Dolores Brown
Imagine walking the long tunnel to the tricked-out bunker of Albania’s former president, Enver Hoxha, who led and isolated his country from 1941 until his death in 1985. We contemplated all the human effort expended to satisfy Hoxha’s paranoia as he held his country in fear. It was unforgettable.
The “we” here are two retired Foreign Service officers who, true to our roots, remain intrepid. Together, we have more than 50 years of experience with the State Department. We bonded in the mid-1990s while working together on Belarus, another cloistered European dictatorship. Dolores was the analyst for Belarus in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, while Maria was the desk officer.