APRIL 21 • 2022 | 59 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. 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