Saved by Language (2015)
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Saved by Language

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.

Release: Jan 15, 2015

Duration: 53m

Genres: Documentary

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, United States of America

Quality: HD

Actors: Moris Albahari, Ester Kaveson Debevec, Jacob Finci, David Kamhi

Director: Bryan Kirschen, Susanna Zaraysky

IMDb: 0/10