To commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, teacher Dževdana Gološ delivered a special educational session for the older pupils of the Bosnian supplementary school at Bosnia House.
Through photographs, documents and powerful historical accounts, pupils learned about the Holocaust and examples of humanity from Bosnia and Herzegovina. These included Derviš Korkut, who saved the Sarajevo Haggadah during the Second World War, and the Hardaga family, who risked their own lives to save the Jewish Kabilio family.
Through these true stories of courage, solidarity and resistance to evil, young people had the opportunity to understand that history is not simply the past—it is a lesson for today and a responsibility for tomorrow.
This is how we build bridges between generations and preserve remembrance so that such crimes never happen again.
How the Haggadah was saved from the Nazis
During the Second World War, under Nazi occupation, one of the world’s most important Jewish books—the Sarajevo Haggadah—was at risk of being confiscated and taken to Germany.
It was saved by Derviš Korkut, a curator at the National Museum in Sarajevo, with the support of the museum’s director, Jozo Petrović. When the Nazis came for the Haggadah, Korkut hid it beneath his coat, carried it out of the museum and took it to a village near Travnik, where it was hidden in a mosque until the end of the war.
Risking his own life, he saved not only a book but also a part of the world’s cultural and Jewish history.
Today, the Sarajevo Haggadah symbolises Bosnia at its very heart—a place where humanity is defended and preserved, even in the darkest times.
Derviš Korkut later received the title “Righteous Among the Nations” from Israel’s Yad Vashem for saving Jews and the Haggadah.
