Saved by Language (2015)

Saved by Language (2015) - Documentary Movies 53 minutes. . 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. yugoslavia, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, partisan, yugoslavian history, jewish history, bosnia, jewish, sarajevo, sefarade, ladino, judeo espanol, ladino language, sephardic full movie online free, download full movie in hd quality, watch free streaming