Tag #123233 - Interview #95855 (Ida Alkalai)

The Aegean Jews, who were killed in the camps, passed through Dupnitsa [17]. Some of those Jews spent a few days in Dupnitsa in some warehouse and the Bulgarians brought them food. I also remember that during fascist times Bulgarian friends visited my husband’s father to take him out to a friend’s house, when Jews were forbidden to go out after 8pm. He would take off the star [the interviewee means the yellow star worn obligatorily as a badge by Bulgarian Jews] [18] and they would hide him while walking on the street. During the war there was a curfew and we were allowed only to walk along the river.