Group portrait of members of the Franses family, a Jewish refugee family from Skopje, Macedonia, with the Albanian family (the Kasapis) that sheltered them in Tirana, Albania.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 58210

Overview

Caption: Group portrait of members of the Franses family, a Jewish refugee family from Skopje, Macedonia, with the Albanian family (the Kasapis) that sheltered them in Tirana, Albania.

Pictured in the top row from left to right are: Vinka Franses, Mr. Batino (a wealthy Albanian Jew from Tirana), Mois Franses, Ester Franses, Hamdi Kasapi, Mrs. Kasapi. The children in front of them are: a neighbor's child, Eni Franses, Marcel Franses, and Josip Kasapi.
Photographer: Riza Kasapi
Date: 1943
Locale: Tirana, Albania
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jasa & Ester Franses Altarac

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Jasa & Ester Franses Altarac

Source Record ID: Collections: 2002.438.8

Keyword: ALBANIANS CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (ALBANIAN) JEWS (MACEDONIAN) JEWS IN HIDING (WARTIME) KASAPI, HAMDI RESCUERS/RESCUE RESCUERS/RESCUE (WARTIME) RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS WOMEN
Photo Designation: RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Albania