Saved by Language

201553m
Documentary

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.

Crew

SZ

Susanna Zaraysky

Writer

SZ

Susanna Zaraysky

Producer

BK

Bryan Kirschen

Director

ZS

Zeljko Svetinovic

Director of Photography

SZ

Susanna Zaraysky

Director

BK

Bryan Kirschen

Producer

BK

Bryan Kirschen

Writer

Cast

MA

Moris Albahari

EK

Ester Kaveson Debevec

JF

Jacob Finci

DK

David Kamhi

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