Thousands of foreign Jews found refuge in Albania during World War II. Yet youths in this once-Marxist nation of 2.6 million know nearly nothing of that unique legacy. ELBASAN, Albania — Isaac ...

construction workers are busy converting a 19th-century Ottoman mansion into the Besa Museum — a long-planned shrine to Albania’s embrace of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution during World War II.

Roland Qafoku, a leading TV reporter and author of a documentary about Albania during the Second World War, welcomed the restoration work, but called on the authorities to take the opportunity to ...