Jews, Moslems, and Humanity: A Christmas Story.
This is the story of how Dervis Korkut, a Moslem in Sarajevo, saved the Sarajevo Haggada, and then Mira Papo, a Jew, from the Nazis, and how Mira then saved Dervis’ daughter, Lamija from the Serbs. Click here for the details in The New Yorker. 
In 1942, Naza Commander Yohan Fortner arrived at the Bosnian National Museum in Sarajevo demanding the museum’s greatest literary treasure, the Sarajevo Hagadda. Dervis Korkut, Muslim, librarian, intellectual anti-fascist, and eventual anti-communist, hid the Sarajevo Haggada. He told Fortner that the book had already been taken by the Nazis. He risked his life to save a book. Another way of looking at this is that he devoted his life to books, ideas, and culture.
In April, 1942, Dervis protected a young Jewish woman, Mira Papo, by bringing her home and passing her off as a Muslim servant to his young wife, Servet, to help care for their infant son, Munib. They risked their lives to save another person.
In 1994, in a letter to the Holocaust Memorial at Yad Vashem, Israel, Mira documented how Dervis and Servet saved her life.
Dervis passed away in 1969. Servet in 1998. In 1999 their daughter Lamija evacuated her children in advance of the collapse of Kosovo. Lamija and her husband were sent by the Serbs to a refugee camp. Lamija went to the Jewish community in Kosovo with a photocopy of Mira’s testimony. Four days later she and her husband were flown to Tel Aviv and reunited with their children, and Mira’s son, Davor Bakovic.
If this story is filmed, Harrison Ford should play Dervis, to Angleina Jolie’s Mira, and Uma Thuman’s Servet. Robert DiNiro should direct and play both Munib Korkut, and Davor Balkovic.
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