Gli ebrei in Albania sotto l’occupazione italiana
Jews in Albania under the Italian Occupation

Summary/Abstract: The Jews living in Albania during the Second World War - local citizens or refugees from other countries - have generally been given little attention by those who have committed themselves to rebuilding the vicissitudes of European Jewry during the years of the Holocaust. Among the main causes of this apparent lack of interest must be considered, first of all, the censorship imposed in the post-war period to the Albanian archives by the communist dictatorship, which made them inaccessible until the mid-nineties. In fact, when scholars have had the opportunity to attend those archives, the recession "inattentiveness" has been transformed, promptly, into a keen interest. An interest that continues to grow, fueled by the fact that the topic of Jews in Albania - in the context of anti-Semitic persecution of the first half of the twentieth century - is now commonly seen (sometimes with excessive emphasis) as an "extraordinary mini-case".

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