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The Bosnian-Muslim Family Who Saved Jews from the Nazis—and Who Were Later Rescued in Return
A new film tells the story of Zejneba Hardaga.
Sabina Vajraca, a U.S.-based director and former refugee from the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, recently released a short film titled Sevap/Mitzvah (“A Good Deed”). It is based on the life of Zejneba Hardaga, a Muslim woman who helped hide a Jewish family, the Kabiljos, during World War II and later helped them escape Nazi-occupied Sarajevo for Israel. As Daria Sito-Sucic notes, the good deed was returned half-a-century later, when the Kabiljos helped Hardaga flee Bosnia’s embattled capital and find refuge in the Jewish state.
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The Bosnian-Muslim Family Who Saved Jews from the Nazis—and Who Were Later Rescued in Return
A new film tells the story of Zejneba Hardaga.