The Miraculous Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust (1939 – 1945) (The Bulgarian Miracle) (Bibliography and Annex) by Dr. Marcel Israel

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6. Bibliography on: 
The Miraculous Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust

1. Les Juifs Espagnols en Bulgarie – Dr. Saül Mézan, Sofia 1925
2. Jüdisches Lexikon , Jüdsischer Verlag Berlin, 1930 (Jewish Encyclopedia)
3. Volkstümliche Geschichte der Juden – Dr. H. Graetz, Löwit Verlag ,Wien und Berlin, 1930 (
4. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/bulgaria.html
5. http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/bulgariaChiefRabbis.html
6. http://www.sephardicstudies.org/portraits.html
7. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitar_Peschew
8. L’uomo che fermo Hitler. La storia de Dimitar Peshev che salvo gli ebrei di una nazione intera – Gabriele Nissim , ed. Mondadori , Milano , 1998
9. Beyond Hitler’s Grasp, The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews – Michael Bar-Zohar , 1998
10. The truth about the situation (economic and social) of the Jews in Bulgaria – (in Bulgarian) Sofia, 1938 Series “Probuda , by B. Piti
11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-erlqy5PXxE&feature=related -Beyond Hitler’s Grasp
12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-83wBkb2cNo – Rab. Daniel Tzion-1
13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYs0Bms5_aA&feature=related – Rab. Daniel Tzion-2
14. From Iberia to Diaspora – Studies in Sephardic History and Culture, edited by Yedida & Norman Stillman, Brill Series in Jewish Studies , 1946 – 1998. p.36 The dissolution of Sephardic Culture in Bulgaria , by Guy H. Haskell
15. Archives, Bulgaria , Holocaust : http://holocaustteaching.eu/bg/biblioteka/archivi
16. Bulgaria and the Final Solution 1940-1944, Frederick Chary, Pittsburgh Univ. Press, 1972
17. Did Bulgaria Refuse to Surrender the Jews? By Prof. Türkkaya Ataöv dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/42/465/5311.pdf
18. The Law for the Protection of the Nation (ZZN , 23.01.1941) (in Bulgarian) http://www.voininatangra.org/modules/xfsection/article.php?articleid=390
19. Bulgarien – Hitlers eigenwilliger Verbündeter. Eine Fallstudie zur nationalsozialistischen Südosteuropapolitik (Bulgaria – Hitler’s Self-willing Ally. A Case study on National Socialist Policy Towards South East Europe), edited by Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, dva, Studies On Contemporary History, volume 15, dva, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-421-01904-5 (Bulgaria – Hitler’s Selfwilling Ally)
20. Rettung und Mord in genozidalen Entscheidungsprozessen: Bulgarien 1941-1943 – Rossitza Ivkova: Universität Bielefeld 2004 , PHD Thesis (Rescue and Murder in Genocidal Decision-Making Processes- Bulgaria 1941-44)
21. Germany, Bulgaria, Greece: Their Relations and Bulgarian Policy In Occupied Greece by Hans-Joachim Hoppe , Pella Publishing Company 1984
22. Documents: The Jews in Greece, 1941-1944 – Eyewitness Accounts by Alexandros Kitroeff, Pella Publishing Company 1985
23. Saving Bulgarian Jews – A triumph of non-violent Resistance , by Rabbi Zev-Hayyim (William) Feyer – Claremont , California , May 2006
24. “Rescue” and Disgrace – Micro-Economy of Bulgaria’s Statal Anti-Semitism , 1940- 1944, (in Bulgarian) , Rumen Avramov, University Press Sofia , 2012
25. The Deportation of the Jews in Vardar-Macedonia and Aegean region , Facts and Myths, by Spas Tashev, Macedonian Scientific Institute, Sofía 2012
26. The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria’s Jews Survived the Holocaust Collection of Texts, by Tzvetan Todorov, Weidenfeld&Nicholson , 2001
27. Documents, by Nathan Greenberg (in Bulgarian) , Bulgarian Jewish Consistory,1946 , A Set of original documents from the Archives of the Commissariat of Jewish Affairs
28. Bulgaria during WWII, by Marshall Lee Miller, Standford Univ.Press, 1975
29. The Killing Trap (Genocide in the XX Century),by Manus Midlarski, p.326 , Cambridge University Press, 2005
30. Cold War in the Balkans. American Foreign Policy and the Emergence of Communism in Bulgaria , 1943-1947 , by Michael Boll, University Press of Kentucky , 1984 , p. 7
31. Dimitrov and Stalin 1934-1943 , Letters from the Soviet Archives , by Alexander Dallin and F.I,. Firsov, 2000, Yale University
32. From Sofia to Jaffa , The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel, by Guy H. Haskell, 1994, Wayne State University Presse
33. Saving Bulgaria’s Jews: An Analysis of Social Idenity and the Mobilisation of Social Solidarity , by Stephen Reicher ,School of Psychology,University of St.Andrews, Scotland, UK, published in European Journal of Social Psychology, Wiley&Sons, 2006
34. Clarifying 70 Years of White Washing and Inaccuracies. The Bulgarian Government and its Interaction with Jews during Holocaust, by Shelomo Alfassa, International Committee for for Bulgaria Holocaust Ear Truth , NYC, 2011
35. The Bulgarian Jews during WWII , Myths and Reality , by Mario Ignatov , University of Cincinati , 2007.
36. Albanian Muslim Rescuers during the Holocaust ,Vancouver Holocasut Education Center, 2010 , www.vhec.org
37. http://www.suffolk.edu/offices/53115.html , Besa: Albanian Muslimus who Saved Jews

Annex 1

The notorious agreement  Belev – Danneker, /15/ for the deportation of 20.000 jews.

The two  lines of this official document have been blacked out by Belev himself !! , who   cynically tried to «meet» this «amount» in deporting 12,000 Jews from Aegean Thrace and Macedonia of Vardar and 8,000 from Bulgaria

Annex 2

Religious Leaders supporting the Jews

Annex 3
Parliament’s Deputy Speaker  Dimitar Peshev

Annex 4
The Letter , sent by Mgr. Angelo Roncalli to King Boris III, June 30 ,1943, /15/

Annex 5/ 1
Deportation in Thrace and Macedonia /15/

On  this photograph two bulgarian officers and a german soldier, controlling the convoy can be seen

Annex 5/ 2

Deportations in Thrace and Macedonia

Bulgarian authorities, registrating deportees.

Annex 5/ 3

Deportations in Thrace and Macedonia: Alexander Belev

Dr. Marcel Israel – Madrid / Sofía , Octubre 2012