Kapidan Nikollë Gjon Marku
Nikollë Gjon Marku
Four years in work camps and concentration camps and forty two years in forced exile.
Arrest/Internment History
November 1944 – Takes refuge with the family of Ndok Gjeloshi in Shkodra.
March 1945 – Arrested and held under house arrest at the home of Guljelm Luka, Shkoder.
July 1945 – Deported with family members and interned in Berat.
February 1947 – sent to Kuçovë for hard labor.
June 1947 – Sent Shjaku for hard labor.
October 1947 – Sent to the farm in Valijas to work on the canal.
April 1949 – Returned to the labor camp in Berat.
May 1949 – Transferred to the concentration camp in Tepelene.
May 1949 – Three week after his arrival they sent him to work in Elbasan, building the road to Korçe . He escaped along with 9 friends and safely reached Jugoslavia.
November 1956 – Arrived in Italy and joined his father and older brother Ndue.
1969 – He and his family emigrate to New York.
June 1993 – Returns briefly to Albania.
15 May, 2018 – Died peacefully at home in New York City.
