Sarajevo is also remembered for its suffering. For 1,425 days, between 1992 and 1996, its people lived under siege. Going to buy bread or collect water could cost you your life. The war left deep wounds; it would be wrong to romanticise Sarajevo as a story of peaceful coexistence. Terrible crimes were committed, and divisions sadly remain in Bosnia and Herzegovina. But there were also people who refused to abandon their neighbours. Some stayed because they could not leave; others because they loved their city and the people who lived in it. Among those who helped was La Benevolencija, Sarajevo’s...