![Gavra Mandil and his family narrowly escaped death in German-held Yugoslava by fleeing to Italian-occupied Albania. [LCID: 08216]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0b332cba-c14d-44f9-bd35-aaace19f9257.jpg)
Gavra Mandil and his family narrowly escaped death in German-held Yugoslavia by fleeing to Italian-occupied Albania. There Gavra attended a school in Kavaja that had both Muslim and Christian pupils. He is seated on the far right in the first row. June 1943.
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