Light Among Darkness - 80th Anniversary of the Rescue of Bulgarian Jews

During World War II, none of Bulgaria’s approximately 50,000 Jews were deported to Nazi death camps. This incredible feat was possible thanks to Bulgarian politicians, administrators, officers, clergymen, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens who refused to yield to Nazi pressure. The Bulgarian state also facilitated transportation for Jewish refugees from Central and Eastern Europe, and Bulgaria’s embassies and consulates issued around 15,000 transit visas to Jews fleeing other countries.
Professor Michael Bar-Zohar, winner of the Skolov Award for his achievements as a journalist and author of several books, including biographies recounting the rescue of Bulgarian Jews from Nazis in World War II; and Svetoslav Stankov, Consul General of the Republic of Bulgaria in Chicago; joined us to discuss the extraordinary acts by Bulgarians to save their Jewish community during World War II. Their conversation reflected upon the significance of the 80th anniversary of the rescue of Bulgarian Jews and how we must continue to resist antisemitism and hatred today.

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no synagoge was touched in Bulgaria,there are still very beutyfull here,but communism forbiden all religions in Bulgaria-orthodocs,muslim,jew,dous not matter,and here have many ruins of churches and synagoges and so on(many peoples leave country to,sad story).And jews in Thrace and Macedonia outside Bulgaria proper,are not bulgarian cityzens,they are greeks and serbs,all si greed of uor rullers,sorry my Balkan brothers for our 1000 years idiotic Balkan history,from wich we didnt learn so long,hope this end atlast,when all peoples know reality,all is greed of our rulers,lead for suffering of common folks(no matter,counttry,color,religion)