Refik Veseli with Mosa, Gabriela, Gavra, and Irena Mandil after World War II. The Mandils were a Jewish Yugoslavian family who survived the Holocaust by hiding with the Veselis, a Muslim Albanian family.
The Mandil family returned to Novi Sad after the war. Mosa opened a new studio and continued working as a photographer. In 1946, Refik Veseli moved to Novi Sad to complete his apprenticeship with Mosa. The Mandil family immigrated to the newly created state of Israel in 1948. Refik Veseli and his parents were eventually honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
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