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“Then, amid terrible violence unleashed against Jewish Viennese, King Zog messengered to Fritzi’s father the papers that would grant all members of the Weitzman family safe passage to Albania. In all, Fritzi and twelve relatives immigrated to Albania. The day after Kristallnacht, Fritzi and her immediately family left Vienna and arrived in the port city Durres. They had the clothes on their back and the equivalent of $3.33 in their pockets. Soon after the Weitzmans arrived, King Zog called the family to his palace in Tirana. There, he asked Fritzi’s father take an official royal portrait of him. Then the palace purchased one copy of the photograph from the Weitzmans for every school in the country. “King Zog was very good to us,” Fritz says. ” more@WSJ.com