Saved by Language

Saved by Language

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Documentary
Runtime
53 mins
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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.

Cast

  • Moris Albahari
  • Ester Kaveson Debevec
  • Jacob Finci
  • David Kamhi

Director

  • Bryan Kirschen
  • Susanna Zaraysky

Producers

  • Susanna Zaraysky
  • Bryan Kirschen

Screenwriter

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