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.
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Saved by Language Productions
- Keyword: yugoslavia, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, partisan, yugoslavian history, jewish history, bosnia, jewish, sarajevo, sefarade, ladino, judeo espanol, ladino language, sephardic
- Cast: Moris Albahari, Ester Kaveson Debevec, Jacob Finci, David Kamhi
