Mitzvahs are for Muslims, too: committed to social action and social justice, Refuge, is a powerful and moving tale of survival during the Holocaust where Muslim Albanians risked everything to protect thousands of Jewish World War II refugees.

Baruch Performing Arts Center Presents The World Premiere Of REFUGE

Did you know there was an entire country in Europe that helped to save thousands of Jews during World War II? Can you conceive that this tiny country in the Balkans, this Muslim country, actually contained more Jews by the end of the war than at the beginning? This is the true, little known story .

The young Jewish family is led by the father Yakov played with mesmerizing authority by The Lionhearted Perri Yaniv -with the panache of an old-time leading man movie star. Period.

Refuge is at the Baruch Performing Arts Center through May 11