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SARAJEVO (Reuters) A film showing how Sarajevos Muslims and Jews saved each other in wartime has premiered in the Bosnian capital this week, highlighting the potential for inter-religious harmony despite renewed global polarization over the Gaza war...
The short film Sevap/Mitzvah (A Good Deed) by U.S.-based director Sabina Vajraca tells the true story of a Muslim woman who hid a Jewish family at their home and helped them escape Nazi-occupied Sarajevo in the 1940s...
Fifty years later, Zejneba Hardaga the first Muslim woman recognised as Righteous Among Nations by the Israeli Holocaust museum for risking her life to save Jews was herself rescued from the besieged Bosnian capital by a Jewish family...
This is a story about neighbourliness, about Muslim-Jewish friendship, about what is the essence of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sarajevo, said Vladimir Andrle, president of the Sarajevo-based Jewish charity La Benevolencija...
During World War Two and Bosnias 1992-1995 war, Muslim historians saved the Sarajevo Haggadah, the 14th century Jewish book of Passover rites which found home in the city from Spain..
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