Sat, May 26 2012

Greek-Jewish group demands UN recognise Bulgaria's role in slaughter

Tue, Jan 31 2012 13:09 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

1295 Views 1 Comment
Greek-Jewish group demands UN recognise Bulgaria's role in slaughter

Hero or villain? The role of King Boris is controversial

Photo: Reuters

A Greek-Jewish umbrella group has requested that the United Nations note Bulgaria's role in slaughtering Greek Jews while also commemorating the country's rescue of its own Bulgarian Jews during World War 2. 

"Bulgarians saved their country’s Jews in exchange for the Jews of the other territories under their control," said a letter sent on January 26 from the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece to the U.N. Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organisations. "In the name of the historical memory of our brothers, victims of the Bulgarian atrocities in our country during the Holocaust, we ask you to include this small and 'untold' part of history in your briefing."

Bulgarian occupiers of northeastern Greece handed over about 4000 Greek Jews to the Nazis for extermination.

The Bulgarian government of the time, under the leadership of King Boris, did not send any of its Jewish population to the death camps.

The Sofia Echo has covered Bulgaria's role in the Holocaust, both the good and the bad, in this interview with Professor Ed Gaffney who made a marvellous film on the subject

  • Print
  • Send via email
  • Translate to
  • Share:

Comments

Преглед на профил resident_greek Tue, Jan 31 2012 19:54 CET
Report Comment

To be historically accurate this was not directed specifically to Greek Jews but it was part of a more general ethnic cleansing which took place in Greek Macedonia as part of the Great Bulgaria plan. 7000 Greeks were only slaughtered in the city of Drama as well as in many other places of North Greece. Greek Jews were just some more Greeks to be spared in the eyes of the Bulgarians at that time.


To post comments, please, Login or Register.


Please read the The Sofia Echo forum comments policy.

More in this category

Saab awarded $2.4M military training equipment contract in Bulgaria

The funding is provided under the foreign military sales programme of the US army's Program Executive Office of Simulation, Training and Instrumentation.

Two Brits fined for hooliganism in Bulgaria’s Veliko Turnovo

The UK nationals were arrested after throwing beer bottles at people after being refused entry to a restaurant that had closed for the night.

Tourism: Bulgaria to spend 300M leva on restoring castles, ancient sites

Restoration and development projects include Madara Horseman, Arbanassi fortress, Magura cave.

Sovereign Order of Malta assists hospital in Bulgaria’s Iskrets

Simeon Saxe-Coburg and his spouse Margarita opened a new heating and insulation system at the Tsar Ferdinand Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases in Iskrets, a project implemented thanks to the Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Sofia and the Nando Peretti Foundation.

Bulgarian Parliament passes confiscation act

According to the law's provisions, the commission will have the power to investigate individuals without prior notification and would not require a criminal conviction in order to launch an investigation.

© 2000-2012, Sofia Echo Media Ltd.

Web Design by RIZN

Sofia Echo Media is part of the Economedia Group.
The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted. Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site. Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com. Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments. The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes, and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.