Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Macedonian Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,3 (1991) 153-159
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
During World War II, while the Jews of "old" Bulgaria were protected by the king, the Jews in the "newly liberated lands" occupied by the Bulgarian army - Macedonia, Western Thrace, and Pirot - suffered from anti-Jewish measures, deportation, and extermination. On 22 February 1943 Bulgaria and Germany signed an agreement for the deportation of the Jews of these occupied lands, and on 11 March the Bulgarian army blockaded cities to facilitate deportation. 7,318 Jews passed through the camp at Skopje; some foreign citizens and doctors were released, but 7,144 Jews were sent to Treblinka and killed. In Aegean Macedonia, even Jews with foreign citizenship were deported to Treblinka and exterminated. 98% of the Macedonian Jews were killed. A report by the German Ambassador Beckerle, dated 17 May 1943, states that the 51,000 Jews of "old" Bulgaria were not deported only because they were needed for forced labor.
Note:
During World War II.
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