Omer Nishani, an activist of the democratic movement, participant in the National Liberation Anti-Fascist War, and a high-ranking official of the post-war Albanian state, was born in Gjirokastër. He served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Assembly from 1946 to 1953.
Hamdi Ohri, a patriot and activist of the national movement in Ohrid and the Sanjak of Dibra, was born in Ohrid, in the well-known family of Iljaz Pasha (Qoku) of Dibra, renowned for their patriotic traditions.
The Albanian people remember with deep sorrow the "Massacre of February 4," a reprisal against the homes and families of Tirana by the German Nazi occupiers and their collaborators on the night of February 4, 1944.