Born into a Bosnian Muslim family, Salih Hardaga grew up knowing that his family had done a very courageous thing.  During the Nazi occupation of Sarajevo, his parents, Mustafa and Zeinaba, sheltered their Jewish friends, the Kabiljos, even though their home stood opposite a Nazi headquarters.  

 Half a century later, when war broke out in the former Yugoslavia in 1992, the Kabiljos were horrified to see that their former hometown of Sarajevo came under siege. They decided to try to rescue their old friends. 

 Alex Strangwayes-Booth tells the story of the two families. 

 Picture alt text: Rivka Kabiljo and Zenaiba Hardega walk through the streets of Sarajevo in 1941..with Zenaida using her veil to hide Rivka’s mandatory yellow Star of David badge.