Wessel: Albanians delivered no Jews to Nazi hands

Wessel said that the Holocaust is the most tragic evidence that tells us of the eternal danger facing us by extremist and antidemocratic ideologies.

“Fascism and Communism, which match the world during the XX century, already belong to history, but we today are threatened by ideologies freezing one group's hatred against another group, one people against another people, one religion against another”, Vessel noted.

While we commemorate his victims, we also commemorate the heroic work of our grandparents, who in those years of Nazi terror, overcame fear and opened the doors to accommodate a large number of Jews. The figures speak that more than 3,000 Jews were rescued at the same time from Kosovo families, among which the most prominent was the Rezniqi family from Dukaagjini”, said Chief Prime Minister Veselin.

A long time, those who were opposed to Kosovo's freedom, Veselin added, have tried to tarnish this humanism by inventing Jewish surrender events in Pristina. But according to him, the facts and documents speak clearly and correctly: Albanians, not in one case, delivered no Jews to the Nazis.

We as Albanians have special reports with the Holocaust tragedy, because only 19 years ago we experienced Serbia's genocide attempt against our people. Thanks to the superhuman sacrifices of our people and the decisive solidarity of the democratic world, we stopped evil, genocide. The evil was halted, but justice has yet to be decided on the atrocities and massacres committed throughout Kosovo by the former Serbian regime”, the head of the Kosovo Assembly stressed, adding that there will never be a drop in seeking justice for Recak, Meya, Izbica, Rezalla, Vrbocin, Gjakova, and dozens of other mass crimes committed in Kosovo villages and towns.

“At the same time, we will never allow our collective pain to be related to the false balance of guilt”, said Chief Prime Minister Veselin.