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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, 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 Buchenwal ....