Before World War II, Albania was home to perhaps 300 Romaniote Jews — a Greek-speaking ethnic community. Most of them lived in Vlora, with a smaller community in Tirana and scattered Jewish ...

Geraldina, 87, the queen of Albania until fascist Italy invaded the country at the beginning of World War II, died Tuesday in Tirana, Albania, after suffering four heart attacks earlier in the day.

Before World War II, Albania was home to perhaps 300 Romaniote Jews — a Greek-speaking ethnic community. Most of them lived in Vlora, with a smaller community in Tirana and scattered Jewish ...

An Army nurse from Utah crash-landed in Albania in World War II, along with a dozen other nurses. They lived by their wits behind Nazi lines for several months, aided and hidden by anti-Nazi ...

Albania saved Jews from Nazis. Now educators teach the Holocaust to a new generation Few youth know Albania is the only European country whose Jewish population was higher after WWII; a teachers ...

Over 750,000 bunkers were built under the direction of communist dictator Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania as one of the most isolationist Stalinists from the end of World War II until his death in ...

Zorba estimated that up to 3,000 foreign Jews found refuge in Albania during World War II. “Only 100 meters from here lived the Kurmaku family, one of the families that protected Jewish people ...

Beneath the crystal-clear water of the Adriatic, shells and grenades dating back to World War II rust on the seabed, polluting the water and posing a deadly threat to life. Aboard the Pluton diving ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Defense Ministry says a World War II bomb has been found in the western part of the country. Local media reports suggest the bomb could have been released from ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of German forces arriving in Albania during World War II, and of the people of Berat protecting many of the country’s Jews who sought refuge—illustrating ...