A traveling exhibit that celebrates Muslims in Albania who saved most of the country’s Jewish citizens and refugees during the Second World War is currently in Winnipeg.
Besa: A Code of Honor was photographed by Norman Gershman. His images show the ancestors of Muslims who risked their lives and are accompanied by a written account of their stories.
“You really see the wonderful stories on each of the panels of what those people did,” said Belle Jarniewski, chair of the Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Education Centre, which helped bring the travelling exhibit to Winnipeg.
“What these people did was so courageous because they did risk their entire family.”
Jarniewski called the exhibit an important piece of history, as it shows what can happen when people aren’t bystanders and are willing to help others.
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