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Washington (JTA) — The
Jewish community this
week commemorated the
50th anniversary of the res-
cue of 50,000 Bulgarian
Jews from Nazi death
camps, an event that repre-
sented at least one bright
spot in the dark days of the
Holocaust.
While the heroism of the
Danish community in trying
to save their Jewish citizens
during World War II is well-
known, few remember this
Bulgarian act of resistance.
In March 1943, the
Bulgarians canceled depor-
tation orders against their
Jewish community, orders
that would have resulted in
the Jews being sent to con-
centration camps.
The rescue, carried out by
members of the Bulgarian
government, the Bulgarian
Orthodox Church and pri-
vate Bulgarian citizens, was
especially noteworthy be-
cause Bulgaria was officially
a German ally in the war.
Speakers at the daylong
event, organized by B'nai
B'rith, linked events during
the Holocaust to the present-
day crisis in Bulgaria's
Balkan neighbor,
Yugoslavia, and its
breakaway republics.
The Israeli ambassador to
Washington, Itamar
Rabinovich, who was among
the participants, urged the
Jewish community to learn
the "lessons of the 1940s,"
and not just passively hope
that the violence in
Yugoslavia will not spread
to the rest of the Balkans.
"Let us be active and
assertive in trying to end the
crisis," Mr. Rabinovich said.
Jewish groups have, in re-
cent months, played a
leading role in calling for a
more active U.S. policy to
stop the "ethnic cleansing"
in the former Yugoslav re-
public of Bosnia-
p Herzegovina.
Bulgarian Ambassador
Ognian Pishev said his is a
country with a tradition of
"ethnic tolerance" that,
among other qualities,
helped it to step "back from
the brink of nationalism,"
unlike Yugoslavia.
"I don't think people in
1943 thought we were mak-
ing history," Mr. Pishev
said, but, he added, the res-
cue of the Jews was "one of
the most courageous" acts in
Bulgarian history.
Mr. Pishev read a letter

from Bulgarian President
Zhelyu Zhelev that noted the
"courage" of the Bulgarians
in saving the Jewish com-
munity, but also commented
on the 11,000 Jews from
Bulgarian- occupied Aegean
Thrace and Macedonia,
"who, despite the protests of
the democrats, crossed
Bulgaria on the way to the
Nazi concentration camps."
Several participants noted
the good relations developed
between Israel and Bulgaria
in recent years, following
Bulgaria's overthrow of its
Communist government and
its shift toward a democratic
society.

Sabena Airlines
Gets Threat

Tel Aviv (JTA) - A Belgian
airplane en route to Israel
made an emergency landing
in Belgrade after a phony
bomb and hijack threat was
phoned into the airline's Tel
Aviv office halfway through
the flight.
Sabena Flight 203 from
Brussels continued onto Tel
Aviv after security officials
checked the plane's passen-
gers and baggage. The flight
landed some nine hours
behind schedule.
It was the first interna-
tional flight to land in the
Yugoslav capital since last
summer, when a United
Nations boycott restricted
landings there to local and
U.N. aircraft.
The Sabena A-310 Airbus
with 136 passengers aboard,
including a dozen German
pilgrims, took off from
Brussels at noon and was
about two hours into its
flight when an anonymous
caller phoned Sabena's Tel
Aviv office with a warning
that four hijackers and a
bomb were aboard.
The Tel Aviv manager
immediately passed on the
warning to Sabena's head of-
fice in Brussels, which in-
structed the pilot to land at
the nearest available air-
port. Belgrade immediately
agreed to the landing.
The plane was ordered to
park in a far corner of the
field.
Passengers and crew were
bussed to the terminal
building some distance away
and inspected and inter-
rogated, while the aircraft
and baggage were minutely
examined by security police.

