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Saved by Language

Saved by Language

Jan 15, 2015 53m
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Synopsis

Can a language save your life? Yes it can, even an ancient one from the 15th century. Saved by Language tells the story of Moris Albahari, a Sephardic Jew from Sarajevo (born 1930), who spoke Ladino/Judeo-Spanish, his mother tongue, to survive the Holocaust. Moris used Ladino to communicate with an Italian Colonel who helped him escape to a Partizan refuge after he ran away from the train taking Yugoslavian Jews to Nazi death camps. By speaking in Ladino to a Spanish-speaking US pilot in 1944 he was able to survive and lead the pilot, along with his American and British colleagues, to a safe Partizan airport.

Title Saved by Language
Companies Saved by Language Productions
Countries Bosnia and Herzegovina, United States of America
Keywords yugoslavia, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, partisan, yugoslavian history, jewish history, bosnia, jewish, sarajevo, sefarade, ladino, judeo espanol, ladino language, sephardic

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