Aristotel Samsuri was a former

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...

n football player who played for

Skënderbeu Korçë , reign = 28 November 1443 – 17 January 1468 , predecessor = Gjon Kastrioti , successor = Gjon Kastrioti II , spouse = Donika Arianiti , issue = Gjon Kastrioti II , royal house = Kastrioti , father ...

between 1930 and 1940, where he won the 1933 National Championship and the golden boot in 1931 after scoring 9 league goals. Following his retirement from football, he joined the

Albanian Partisans The National Liberation Movement ( sq, Lëvizja Nacional-Çlirimtare; or ''Lëvizja Antifashiste Nacional-Çlirimtare'' (LANÇ)), also translated as National Liberation Front, was an Albanian communist resistance organization that fought in World ...

and was captured by the Nazi German troops who put him in a concentration camp in

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where he was executed some time between 1942 and 1944. The ruling post-war Communist regime in Albania covered up his death; the official stance was that he had escaped from the concentration camp and had left Greece on a boat that sank and killed everyone on board except for Samsuri who being the only one to survive the incident, supposedly travelled to the

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, modern–day

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where he lived under the name Justin Osturno. This was all a lie told to Samsuri's family by the Communist Party, who even wrote fake letters to his family members posing as Samsuri under the name Justin Osturno. This all ended in 1981 and Samsuri was officially declared a martyr and his death was accepted as taking place during World War II.

Honours

;Skënderbeu Korçë *

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top scorer (1): 1931

References

Year of birth missing 1942 deaths People from Devoll (municipality) Footballers from Korçë Albanian footballers Association football forwards KF Skënderbeu Korçë players Kategoria Superiore players Civilians killed in World War II {{Albania-footy-forward-stub