Compared to the contentious postsocialist debates over the Holocaust that have occurred in the other countries of Eastern Europe, the wartime history of prewar Albania’s 156 native Jews has generated scant public attention and scholarly research both in Albania and abroad.¹ Nearly all Albania’s Jews and hundreds of nonnative refugees survived the Second World War in Albania.² A small group of government officials, historians, and journalists based in the country’s capital, Tirana, formulated Albania’s first published perceptions of the Holocaust after the fall of Albanian communism in 1992. Albanian elites have since addressed the subject within the context of issues