Saved by Language (2015)

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.

Released Jan. 15, 2015 53 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.yugoslavia, tmdb.holocaust-shoah, tmdb.partisan, tmdb.yugoslavian-history, tmdb.jewish-history, tmdb.bosnia, tmdb.jewish + 23 more, tmdb.sarajevo, tmdb.sefarade, tmdb.ladino, tmdb.judeo-espanol, tmdb.ladino-language, tmdb.sephardic, imdb.ladino, imdb.sarajevo, imdb.sephardic, imdb.holocaust, imdb.partisan, imdb.spanish-inquisition, imdb.sarajevo-haggadah, imdb.sarajevo-synagogue, imdb.judeo-spanish, imdb.world-war-two, imdb.yugoslavia, imdb.bosnia, imdb.sephardim, imdb.sefarad, imdb.shoah, tmdb.world-war-ii, aspectratio.1-33-1