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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. 

