The Anti-Defamation League honored an Albanian Muslim family that saved 26 Jews from the Nazis. On Thursday, the ADL posthumously awarded its Courage to Care award to Mefail and Njazi Bicaku, who sheltered Jews in the mountains of central Albania while the Nazis searched the area.
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