Why Did Albanians Protect Jews during the Holocaust?

IF 0.2 Q2 HISTORY
A. Hoxha
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The fact that some Albanians protected Jews during the Holocaust has long been known in Albania and has become increasingly well known in the West since Israel recognized sixty-five Muslim Albanians as Righteous Gentiles. Albanian historians ignored these facts until the fall of communism, and Westerners portrayed Albanian helpers of Jews as generalized mythical Muslims with a medieval culture in an obscure pro-Semitic European oasis rather than as individuals making a variety of choices. This research sheds light on the ideological limitations pervasive in existing Albanian historical scholarship and then draws on twenty-seven new oral history interviews with families who saved Jews to outline a range of reasons that Albanians of various religions, political backgrounds, and social statuses took Jews into their care between 1942 and 1945. Going beyond reductionist nationalist explanations, we see that it was a combination of geographically differentiated socio-cultural, political, economic, and war-specific factors that led to Jews finding safe haven in some areas populated by ethnic Albanians during World War Two.
为什么阿尔巴尼亚人在大屠杀期间保护犹太人?
一些阿尔巴尼亚人在大屠杀期间保护犹太人的事实在阿尔巴尼亚早已众所周知,自从以色列承认 65 名阿尔巴尼亚穆斯林为正直的外邦人之后,这一事实在西方也越来越广为人知。在共产主义垮台之前,阿尔巴尼亚历史学家对这些事实视而不见,西方人将帮助犹太人的阿尔巴尼亚人描绘成一个笼统的神话中的穆斯林,他们在一个不起眼的亲犹太人的欧洲绿洲中拥有中世纪文化,而不是做出各种选择的个人。这项研究揭示了现有阿尔巴尼亚历史学术研究中普遍存在的意识形态局限性,然后利用对曾拯救过犹太人的家庭进行的 27 次新的口述历史访谈,概述了 1942 年至 1945 年间不同宗教信仰、政治背景和社会地位的阿尔巴尼亚人照顾犹太人的一系列原因。超越简化的民族主义解释,我们看到,在第二次世界大战期间,是地理上不同的社会文化、政治、经济和战争特定因素的结合,导致犹太人在阿尔巴尼亚族人居住的一些地区找到了安全的避难所。
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