On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, and the UN Department of Public Information briefing on Bulgaria’s unknown part in saving its Jewish population during WWII, the Central Board of Jewish Communities of Greece sent a letter to the UN body on January 26, reminding them of Bulgaria’s part in the Greek Jews’ Holocaust.
Although Bulgaria organized a campaign during WWII to save its Jewish population, the price paid was the deportation of 11,000 Greek Jews from Thrace and Macedonia, then controlled by Bulgaria.
“In the name of the historical memory of our brothers, victims of the Bulgarian atrocities in our country during the Holocaust, we ask you to include this small and ‘untold’ part of history in your briefing,” said the letter sent Jan. 26, according to novinite.com.
Despite the fact that Bulgaria was an Axis ally in WWII, the country managed to save the lives of about 50,000 Bulgarian Jews with the support of Bulgarian politicians and even Tsar Boris III.
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