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Saved by Language (2015)

Name: Saved by Language
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-10-07
Duration: 53 min
Cast: Moris Albahari, Ester Kaveson Debevec, Jacob Finci, David Kamhi

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NR 53 minJan 15th, 2015Documentary

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.

StarringMoris AlbahariEster Kaveson DebevecJacob Finci

DirectorsBryan KirschenSusanna Zaraysky

WritersBryan KirschenSusanna Zaraysky

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