King of Albania i Shqiptarëve" in Albanian) as "Zog I". Zog sought to establish a constitutional monarchy. Under the royal constitution, the Albanian King, like the King of the Belgians, had to swear an oath before parliament before entering into his royal powers. The text of the oath was as follows: Zog's Kingdom came to be tied more and more closely to King Vittorio Emanuele III's Italy, until the latter occupied it on April 7, 1939. Zog fled the country, and five days later, the Albanian Parliament proclaimed Vittorio Emanuele as the new King. He took the title "King of Albania", which he
Zog nit keyn mol Zog nit keyn mol "Zog nit keyn mol" ("Never Say"; ) or "Partizaner lid" ("Partisan Song") is a Yiddish song considered one of the chief anthems of the Holocaust survivors and is sung in memorial services around the world. The lyrics of the song were written in 1943 by Hirsh Glick, a young Jewish inmate of the Vilna Ghetto. The title means "Never Say", and derives from the first line of the song. Glick's lyrics were set to music from a pre-war Soviet song written by Pokrass brothers, Dmitri and Daniel, "Терская походная" ("Terek Cossacks' March Song"), also known as