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A monument of gratitude for the rescue of Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust was dedicated in the presence of the Israeli Ambassador and other dignitaries in Bourgas, Bulgaria, 75 years after the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews and the deportation of Jews from areas of northern Greece and Yugoslavia under Bulgarian administration. [61]
Tsar Boris III and Adolf Hitler in 1943 Monument in honour of the Bulgarian people who saved Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust, Jaffa. Bulgaria, as a potential beneficiary from the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939, had competed with other such nations to curry favour with Nazi Germany by gestures of antisemitic legislation. Bulgaria ...
Holocaust memorial in Drama, Greece. In March 1943, about 4,075 Jews living in Bulgarian-occupied eastern Greek Macedonia and Western Thrace (annexed as the Bulgarian province of Belomorie) were deported to Treblinka extermination camp and murdered.
Dimitar Peshev of Bulgaria's National Assembly prevented the deportation of Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews. [45] Bulgaria joined the Axis powers in March 1941 and took part in the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. [46] The Nazi-allied government of Bulgaria, led by Bogdan Filov, fully and actively assisted in the Holocaust in occupied areas.
The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution, 1940-1944 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977) Chary, F.B. "Bulgaria", Wyman, D.S. and Rosenzveig, C.H. (eds.), The world reacts to the Holocaust (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) Fein, H. Accounting for Genocide: National Responses and Jewish Victimization during the Holocaust, (Free Press, 1979)
Bulgaria, who granted Jews full citizenship in 1880, who was part of the axis powers, tried to give over Bulgarian Jews to the Germans in exchange for its old territories like Thrace or North Macedonia but was met with strong popular resistance. Nevertheless, Bulgaria sent thousands of Jews from the occupied territories to Nazi concentration ...
Peshev's deeds went unrecognized for years after the war as he lived an empty, destitute, and isolated life. In January 1973, Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Museum, awarded him the title of "Righteous Among the Nations," for his role in saving Bulgaria's Jews at considerable risk to himself. He is one of twenty Bulgarians so officially honored.
The shocking attack on Jews more than eight decades after the Holocaust feels “very close to home” for Baer, who lived in Amsterdam until age 5, when she was whisked away to wait out the war ...