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Johann Fortner

While Fortner was based in Sarajevo, he visited the Bosnian National Museum and demanded that the museum custodians hand over a 14th-century illuminated Jewish manuscript known as the Sarajevo Haggadah.

Sarajevo Haggadah

It survived in an underground bank vault during the siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serb forces (Siege of Sarajevo – the longest siege in the history of modern warfare).

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There is a brief mention of the manuscript in the motion picture, "Welcome to Sarajevo".

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The Winter, 2002, issue of the literary journal Brick published Ramona Koval's account of the disputes surrounding the proposed UNESCO-funded display of the original codex in the context of the post-Dayton Agreement UN-supervised 1995 peace settlement.

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The history of Derviš Korkut, who saved the book from the Nazis, was told in an article by Geraldine Brooks in The New Yorker magazine.

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