[2] The 1455 Turkish cadastral tax censusa of the Branković lands (covering 80% of present-day Kosovo) recorded 1 Jewish dwelling in Vushtrri.

In 1944, communist partisans recaptured Kosovo from Albania and made it part of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia.

Current literature indicates five sets of numerically recorded deportations from Kosovo: 1) August 1941, Mitrovica, under German occupation, 88 Jews are reported to have been sent to Sajmište Concentration Camp near axis occupied Belgrade where they were killed.

Prior to deportation all Jewish men in Mitrovica / Mitrovice are alleged to have been arrested, while women were sent to daily forced labor.

A 1960 report to the Administration of the State Security of NR Serbia details names of victims from 12 families shot at the camp in winter 1941.

Supplementary survivor testimony in the Shoah Foundation Archive also makes reference to experience of the holocaust in relation to movements through Kosovska Mitrovica] 2) 1942, Prishtina.

As of 1943 historian Daniel Perez relates they made up part of 500 Jews held under house arrest or in concentration camps in the Albanian towns of Berat, Kruja and Kavaja.

[7][6][8][9] 5) August 1944, Prishtina, An extensive list of 789 mainly non-Jewish victims including Bosniak, Albanian, Serbian, communists, partisans and activists, arrested by the SS Skanderburg division to be transported to the Reich has been published by Robert Elise.

Serbian historian Pavle Dzeletovic Ivanov also puts the number of arrests on May 14 at 400 (which conversely suggests overstatement).

[12] The names of those who both survived and perished at Bergen-Belsen are recorded at source [5] Noel Malcolm summarises that out of 551 native Kosovo Jews present before war, 210 had died by the end.

(...) Those who were designated for transport were ordered, or, more precisely, kindly advised to take their most valuable possessions with them, and to pack all the rest carefully and put their exact address on the package.

The driver of the grey car often entered the camp alone, gathered children around him, caressed them, took them in his arms and gave them candies.

Extensive information on the German occupation of Albania proper, with original Nazi source materials referring to Kosovo, can be found in the work of Robert Elise.

More than half of the surviving Yugoslav Jews chose to immigrate to Israel after World War II.

During the conflict, the 50 remaining Jews in the provincial capital city of Pristina fled to Albania, because they had close cultural and linguistic ties with Albanians.

[19] Israel has good relations with the Kosovans, with the Israeli government sending massive humanitarian aid during and after the 1998-99 war with Slobodan Milošević's regime.