2003 – A project was launched by Norman Gershman a renowned photographer to photograph Albanian Muslim families who sheltered Jews during World War II. A year after in 2004 – just after two photographic expeditions to Kosovo and Albania, Gershman was astound by what he learned that out approximately 150 Muslim families who took part in the rescue of Jews. It is believed that the citizens of Greater Albania saved between two and three thousand Jews between 1943 and 1945 who were on their way to seek asylum and flee the harsh Nazi during this era.
