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| Photo of hungry Albanians of 1913 in Kosovo by Albert Kahn |
In May of 1913, the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn visited Kosovo, which had just emerged from the Ottoman Empire and came under the new occupation of the Kingdom of Serbia.
No one testifies more to our misery than this photograph taken on May 4, 1913 in Pristina. Emaciated and hungry Albanians are "accompanied" by two Serbian gendarmes, who are the best evidence of the next threat.
The photograph may have been taken in the Qarshi neighborhood of Pristina, where today the buildings of the Assembly and Government of Kosovo stand, which the slavic communist regime demolished in the late 1960s with the motto "Destroy the old, build the new!".
In the collection of the philanthropist Albert Kahn, there are 94 photographs with motives from Kosovo. Kahn visited not only Pristina but also Prizren, Gracanica, and Lipjan.