In 1941, a Muslim woman, Zejneba Hardaga and her family, hid an entire Jewish family and helped them escaped the persecution in the Nazi-occupied Sarajevo. Despite notices on the street walls threatening those who would hide Jews with the death penalty, the Hardaga family welcomed the Kavilio family and told them “Our home is your home.” After the war was over, the Kavilio family immigrated to Israel. In 1984, they asked Yad Vashem to give the Hardaga family the recognition “Righteous Among the Nations.” According to Eli Tauber, the head of a Jewish cultural association in Sarajevo, Zejneba Hardaga is the first Muslim woman to be recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations,” an honor awarded to non-Jews who helped Jews escape persecution in the Holocaust. Fifty years later, during the 1992–1995 siege of Sarajevo, Zajneba and her family were under imminent threat. The Kavilio family secured refuge and safety for Zejneba’s family by using fake Jewish identity cards. In February 1994, Zejneba Hardaga and her family fled to Israel and were welcomed by government officials, representatives of Yad Vashem and the Kavilios. They still live in Israel and Zejneba’s daughter, Sarah Pecanac, began working for Yad Vashem where stories of courageous and righteous non-Jews to save Jews during the Holocaust are kept alive. Rescues took many forms and the Righteous came from different nations, religions, and walks of life. What they had in common was that they protected their Jewish neighbors at a time when hostility and indifference prevailed (Yad Vashem 2023).