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There are two sides to the story of Bulgaria and Holocaust. There are the words constantly repeated in printed matter and on the internet: “Bulgaria saved ALL its Jews.” Then there is the truth. Bulgaria was directly complicit in the murder of Jews in territories they were awarded by their Nazi allies: Thrace and Macedonia; territories in northwestern Greece and southern Yugoslavia; territories totaling almost 13,000 Jews.
Kehila Kedosha Janina is committed to telling the whole truth. Many Greek Jews have been continually pained by the omission on the part of Bulgaria, the omission that forgets to mention our relatives who lost their lives in Kavala, Drama, Komotini, Xanthi, Alexandroupoli, Serres and Monastir (Bitol).
Kehila Kedosha Janina is proud to sell the just-published book:
Shameful Behavior: Bulgaria and the Holocaust by Shelomo Alfassa
“Bulgaria was complicit in the dispossession, torture and murder of thousands of Jews–yet, the Bulgarian government continues to whitewash this fact. While it is known that the Bulgarian government elected not to deport some 50,000 Jews from ‘Old’ Bulgaria to German death camps in Poland–what is not known is that Bulgaria was directly complicit in the murder of some 13,000 Jews from ‘New’ Bulgaria (Thrace and Macedonia).
Tediously researched and assembled by Shelomo Alfassa from a multitude of sources, Shameful Behavior: Bulgaria and the Holocaust demonstrates what Bulgaria doesn’t like to discuss–how they were responsible for the deaths of Jews during World War II.”
