Monday, November 16, 2009

Hiding In Plain Sight

The Righteous

A Little-Known Secret was that Albanian Muslims Hid Jews from the Nazis; Now a Survivor Reunites With Her Savior.

Johanna Neumann is on a journey more than 70 years in the making . . . a journey that started in Germany. She left Hamburg when she had just turned 8.

She remembers it because, she says, "this was such a dramatic experience."

Her life changed in the violent darkness of November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht - the Night of Broken Glass. It was when the Nazis launched a vicious assault on Jewish communities - looting homes, destroying businesses, burning synagogues. It was an ominous preview of the horrors to come...>>>>


Johannna Neuman's journey from darkness to salvation is 70 years in the making, owing much of that to the Albanian family who saved her and her family during the Holocaust. Jim Axelrod reports.

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