This picture was posted with the following declaration: "A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her veil to protect her, Sarajevo, 1941." Is it true?

by CynicalPajeet
JDHoare

The caption on Yad Vashem says so.

The woman on the right is Zayneba Hardaga, who along with her husband sheltered four Jewish neighbours.

All the relevant information is there, but this is a nice bit:

Without hesitation, Zayneba brought the Jewish family into her home, where her husband and his brother, Izet, and his wife, Bachriya, welcomed their friends with outstretched arms. “Whatever is ours will be yours. We’ll share everything like family – feel as if you are in your own home,” they said. Zayneba later recalled: “This was the first time that a foreign man had slept in our house, the first time we unveiled ourselves before others. But Josef was like a brother to us – if not before then, then certainly from the day he entered our home.”