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succeeded in delaying the
deportations. The king and
prime minister retaliated
— the parliament voted to
remove him from his post on
March 26.
Jews from the newly
acquired territories were
deported to death camps.
The Bulgarian government
would not listen to appeals
for those Jews.
Comforty interviewed Nir
Baruch, who reported that
11,363 were deported from
Macedonia, Thrace and
the city of Pirot. Only 12
survived.
In negotiations with Von
Ribbentrop in early April,
Boris III agreed to the
deportations and agreed to
deport half of the remaining
Jewish population. The next
month, Jews from Sofia
were forced to self-deport
themselves to provincial
towns as first step toward
deportations. The death of
the king stopped that second
part from happening.
Some credit also belongs
to Bulgarians who opposed
the antisemitic laws and
actions. In addition to
Dimiter Peshev, the Holy
Synod of the Bulgarian
Orthodox Church and its
metropolitan bishops as
well as hundreds of other
individuals tried to delay
or derail the murder of the
Jews.
But, as Comforty’s
informants made clear, a
key part of the survival of
nearly 50,000 Bulgarian
Jews came from timing.
On Aug. 28, 1943, Boris
III died from heart failure.
Bulgaria needed to organize
a new government, which
began to distance itself from
the German war machine.
During the next year, the
Russian army approached
and eventually took Bulgaria.
The experience of Jews
of Bulgaria included all
the steps of the horror of
the Holocaust up to — but
generally not including
— the last one, getting
murdered.
Survivors bear the scars
of years of uncertainty, fear
and deprivation. Historians,
politicians and even the
successor king of Bulgaria
each get a few pages to
explain their understanding
of Bulgaria during the days
of the Final Solution in
Jacky Comforty and Martha
Aladjem Bloomfield’s
The Stolen Narrative of
the Bulgarian Jews and the
Holocaust.
To learn more about the
book and the authors’
collaboration, go to
www.the-stolen-narrative.org.
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A KEY PART OF THE SURVIVAL
OF NEARLY 50,000
BULGARIAN JEWS CAME
FROM TIMING.