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German school named for Albanian who saved Jews sends students to Tirana for Holocaust remembrance

JL;DR SUMMARY In a poignant commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, students from a Berlin high school, named after Albanian rescuer Refik Veseli, visited Tirana, Albania. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaustGermanyHolocaust EducationNazi OccupationCultural ExchangeAlbaniaBesaRefik Veseli

Places mentioned

Tirana, Tirana County, Albania
"TIRANA, Albania Sixteen-year-old Melisa Malo, a 10th-grader at the Gjimnazi Sami Frashri here, first learned about the Holocaust four years ago when she attended an Albanian-language stage performance of The Diary of Anne Frank."
Kruj, Durrës County, Albania
"One such Albanian was Refik Veseli, a young photographers apprentice who from 1942 to 1944 hid a Jewish family at his own familys house in Kruj, a village near Tirana."
Berlin, Germany
"Twelve years ago, students at a German high school in Berlins predominantly immigrant district of Kreuzberg voted to rename their school in his memory."
Brandenburg, Germany
"I spent three months in Brandenburg [a state in northeastern Germany] and there, they hate immigrants."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"At the end of World War II, Gavra Mandil and his family found their way to Israel. He eventually became a famous photographer and set up his own studio in Tel Aviv."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Rama to Jerusalem, where he addressed the Knesset a rare honor offered only to five other heads of state: Egypts Anwar el-Sadat and U.S. Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Donald Trump."

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