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Titre original :

Saved by Language

Durée :

0h 53min

Date de sortie :

January 2015

Budget (en $) :

15 000

Réalisé par : Bryan Kirschen, Susanna Zaraysky
Ecrit par : Bryan Kirschen, Susanna Zaraysky

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.