During the Second World War Dr. Chaim Abrabanel, a physician from Skopje in Macedonia, had been enlisted in the Yugoslav army. His military unit was stationed in Kosovo, and when a typhoid epidemic broke out, Dr. Abrabanel was called to treat the sick people, among them members of Rezniqi, a family of Albanian Muslims. Arslan Rezniqi was very grateful to Dr. Abrabanel who had cured his son Mustafa, and maintained warm relations with the military doctor. In April 1941 Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia, the country was divided, and Kosovo became a part of Serbia, which was under German military rule. Following the invasion, Abrabanel’s military unit was taken prisoner by the Germans. When Rezniqi heard that the doctor was in a POW camp, he began looking for ways to help him. Arslan and his son put on traditional Albanian clothes and smuggled themselves into the POW camp. They reached the section where the Jewish prisoners were held, found Dr. Abrabanel and asked him to put on the extra set of Albanian dress they had brought with them. Thus they were able to get him out of the camp. They took Abrabanel to their home where he stayed until he could return to his family in Skopje. When he began his return journey, Rezniqi accompanied him and made sure that he was safe.On 12 February 2008 Yad Vashem recognized Arslan Mustafa Rezniqi as Rigtheous Among the Nations.