Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Annual (Social, Cultural and Educational Association of the Jews in the People's Republic of Bulgaria)
Angaben zur Quelle:
24 (1989) 95-109
Keywords:
Boris
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Surveys relations between Bulgaria and Nazi Germany. By 20 January 1941 Bulgaria was pressured by Germany to join the Axis and adopt anti-Jewish measures. Although King Boris III agreed in 1943 to the deportation of Jews from the Aegean and Macedonia (and indeed the process had begun), a widespread public protest succeeded in preventing their actual deportation from Bulgarian-occupied territories. The mass movement, involving all strata of Bulgarian society (including the Orthodox Church and members of Parliament), continued to snowball, especially in reaction to the banishment of 25,000 Jews from Sofia to the countryside in May 1943. This influenced the king to refuse to deport the Bulgarian Jews.
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