Approximately 47,000 Jews lived in Bulgaria before the Second World War and virtually none of the country’s Jews were deported to Nazi death camps. In Bulgarian-occupied Thrace and Macedonia, however, nearly 12,000 Jews were deported; almost none returned. Approximately 45,000 Bulgarian Jews emigrated to Israel in the late 1940s-1950s. There was no real organized Jewish life until after 1989. The community today, although small, is well organized and quite proud of rebuilding its communal institutions. Centropa’s Bulgarian interviews were carried out by a team coordinated by Nelly Rousseva of The Bulgarian Photographers’ Association and edited by Mihaylina Pavlov of Shalom, the Jewish Community of Bulgaria. What you will notice in the pictures we’ve collected in Bulgaria is a high percentage of people dressed in traditional Sephardic costume. The other great Balkan Sephardic communities of Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, and Bosnia were almost wholly wiped out during the Holocaust, so those family stories, and the images that go with them, are now lost to us. That makes this particular collection all the more historically important.
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No Name selected Aasa Afeyan Aladjem Albelda Albuhaire Alexandrov Alfaha Alhalel Almalech Amar Angelov Angelova Anski Antonova Anzhel Arditi Arenos Arie Aronov Aronova Aroyo Aruesti Asael Aseo Asher Asher Birma Aslan Assa Avramov Avramova Ayzner Bartish Baruh Behar Benaroya Benbasat Beniamin Benun Benvenisti Benvinisti Beraha Bidjarano Blumenfeld Bohor Bohorachev Bohoracheva Burla Chouparinova Cohen Daniel Danon Danon -Moshe Danon-Moshe David Mairova Davidova Decallo Decalo Deccalo Dekalo Delareya Diankova Djambazov Djivri Elazar Elazarov Elazarova Eliezer Eshkenazi Eshua Evtimova Ezra Menda Farhi Fintzi Fransez Gadol Galvi Galvy Geron Gershon Gershon-Levi Gershon-Zaharieva Gila Zur Grancharov Grancharova Gratsiani Grigorov Grinberg Hershkovic Hinkov Hinkova Hristov Hristova Iako-Isakova Iakov Iakova Ilel Iosif Isaev Isaeva Isak Israel Israilov Josiford Josifov Josifova Kalef Kalmi Kamhi Kantardjieva Kasabov Kasabova Katalan Katarivas Kirova Kohen Kohen-Ausburger Kohenov Kohenova Kolevska Komforti Konfino Konorti Koutev Kovachev Kurtev Kurteva Lazar Lazarov Lazarova Levi Levy Lidgi Lidji Lillo Lulcheva Madjar Madzhar Manon Margoles Mashiah Melamed Menahem Menda Mihaylov Mihaylova Mitrani Miuhas Mizrahi Molho Molhov Molhova Momona Moshe Moshe Danon Moskona Moyseev Munk Munkova Natan Navon Nessim Nikolova Nisan Nissim Cohen Nusan Oliver Ozon Pagirskaya Panova Pashkova Penchev Pencheva Perets Perez Petkov Petkova Pili Pilosof Pinkas Pizanti Primo Primov Punchev Puncheva Radichkova Rafailov Rafailova Razon Rizov Rizova Ronko Rozenfain Rubenov Rubenova Sabitai Sabitay Sadikario Sami Eshkenazi Samoilov Santo Avramova Santo Solomonova Santurdjiyan Saranga Seliktar Shabat Shlapoberskiy Shopov Sidi Sivova Slavcheva Solomonov Solomonova Stoyanova Talev Terzieva Tzonev Uziel Vagenshtain Vakarelova Varsano Vutkov Yako Yakov Yulzari Zahariev
No Town selected "Karshika" region near Dupnitza a mountain somewhere in Bulgaria around Sofia Asenovgrad Balkan Mountain, Vola Peak Bankia Bankya Batak lake in the Rhodope Moutains Beli Briag Belovo Berkovitsa Berkovitza Borovets Bourgas Boyana Bozhurishte Burgas Byala Slatina Chepino Chuchuligovo Dabnitsa Dimitrovgrad Dupnitsa Dupnitza Ferdinand Gorna Banya Gorna Dzhumaya Haskovo Hisar Iambol In a village nearby Veliko Turnovo Karlovy Vary Karnobat Kazanlak Kiustendil Kjustendil Kleptuza, Chepino Korubaglar Kostenets Kovachevtsi Krainitsi village Kyustendil Lom Lukovit Lyubimets Marikostino Mihalkovo Momin Prohod Musala Muzla near Sliven near Sofia Nedelino Panagiurishte Panagyurishte Pazardjik Pazardzhik Pazardzhik. Pernik-Voluyak Petrohan Pleven Plovdiv Primorsko Rakitovo Razgrad Rhodopi mountain Rila Monastery Rouse Rousse Rudnik, Varna district Ruse Sapareva Banya resort Shiroka Poliana village, Batak region Shumen Sliven Sofia Sofia-Mezdra road Somewhere at the WWI front South Bulgaria Stara Zagora Sunny Beach resort Sveti Vrach The Rila Mountain the town of Strelcha Tran Gorge Troyan Tryavna Varna Varshets Velingrad Vidin Vienna Village near Sofia Village of Kurtovo Konare Village of Sinagovtsi Vitosha Vitosha Mountain Vitosha mountain Vitosha Mountain near Sofia Vladaya Vlasina Vratsa Yambol Yambol or Plovdiv Zvanichevo
Biographies of Holocaust survivors
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No Name selected Albuhaire, Gracia Albuhaire, Matilda Alhalel, Mayer Almalech, Eshua Amar, Vera Anzhel, Leon Anzhel, Roza Arditi, Leontina Asael, Mazal Assa, Rebeca Baruh, Victor Behar, Victoria Beraha, Lea Beraha, Rafael Blumenfeld, Raina Danon, Anna Danon, Shimon Danon-Moshe, Sofi Davidova, Luna Dekalo, Bina Elazarov, David Gershon-Levi, Rebeca Grinberg, Regina Hinkova, Adela Isaeva, Linka Israel, Matilda Josifova, Ester Kamhi, Venezia Kasabova, Anelia Kohen, Klara Kohen, Tinka Kolevska, Rosa Lazarov, Leon Lazarova, Sonya Levi, Adela Levi, Jul Levi, Leon Levi, Lilia Madzhar, Leon Molhov, Haim Petkova, Mimi-Matilda Pinkas, Sophie Rizova, Elza Solomonova, Korina Uziel, Sofi Yakov, Yako
Essays on Jewish history
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>> Excerpts from Jews in the Soviet Satellites - 1 (Peter Meyer) >> Excerpts from Jews of the Soviet Satellites - 2 (Peter Meyer) >> Excerpts from Jews of the Soviet Satellites - 3 (Peter Meyer) >> Excerpts from Jews of the Soviet Satellites - 4 (Peter Meyer) >> Excerpts from The War against the Jews: 1933-1945 (Lucy S. Dawidowicz)
Photos on contemporary Jewish Life
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