Any regular of Cafe Cheray knows Sanka Smailhodzic. You can recognize her by her motherly smile, friendly disposition, and light, warm Bosnian accent. What you probably don’t know is that Sanka was once a refugee and that her family narrowly escaped the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims in the mid … Continue reading Echos of the past: How one family’s escape from tragedy mirrors modern crises