Ymer Berisha (May 13, 1912-July 11, 1946) was an Albanian secondary-school teacher in Prishtina and was made head of the anticommunist Besa Kombëtare organization in Kosovo in the final months of the Second World War.
In late October 1945, he sent this memorandum to Brigadier General Hodgson, head of the British Military Mission in Albania, in an appeal for help in their futile struggle against the advancing communist partisans.
[1] He was born on May 13, 1912, in the village of Gjurgjevik I Madh, in Prekoruba, Dukagjini Plain, the son of Shaban Berisha and the Phase of Jetish Tafili from Turicefc, Drenica.
Further with a scholarship from the Albanian state he attended high school in Italy, where he graduated in History and Geography at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Florence in 1936.
From November 1944 he went underground, formed the organization "Besa national" and became known as the ideologue of the armed resistance for the protection of borders and the unification of Albanian lands.