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BULGARIA HONOURS HOLOCAUST VICTIMS

09:39 Fri 09 Mar 2007

Members of Parliament will mark on March 9 the 64th anniversary since the salvation of Bulgaria’s Jewish citizens during World War II and will honour Holocaust victims.

At 11am Parliament speaker Georgi Pirinski will lay flowers in front of the monument next to the National Assembly building.

A Council of Ministers decision marks March 9 as the day commemorating the salvation of Bulgaria’s Jews, Focus news agency reported.

The European community in Sofia is also organising a demonstration to honour the victims of the Holocaust.

Israeli citizens of Bulgarian origin, among which former Israeli ambassador to Bulgaria Emanuel Zisman will take part in the ceremony.

In 1943 interior minister Petar Gabrovski reversed previously issued orders for the deportation of Jews from Bulgaria. According to sources Gabrovski was following orders coming from Bulgaria’s king.

Comments

Comments by Craig Scherf - 18:58 09 Mar 2007
	It is good to see that Bulgaria continues to justly commemorate its role in sparing its Jewish citizens when almost no nation in Europe had the courage to do so. It is also proper that although recognition of the Metropolitan and the Bulgarian people for their role deed is due that the especial role of the late King Boris III be honoured.
Comments by Joe Morgan - 19:56 10 Mar 2007
	The holocaust stories have become the new state religion in the West. As Norman Finklestein writes in his book, The Holocaust Industry, Zionist use the holocaust as a shield to deflect criticism from the atrocities they commit against the Palestinian people. Egalitarian Jews use the holocaust myths as the template to define European racial families that want to endure and to control their own culture.