The Holocaust saw the persecution of Jews in the Tsardom of Bulgaria and their deportation and annihilation in the Bulgarian-occupied regions of Yugoslavia and Greece between 1941 and 1944, arranged b
Rescue memorial at Charles Clore Park in Tel Aviv in memory of the salvation of the Jews in Bulgaria
Boris III with Axis ally Adolf Hitler in 1941
Monument in honor of the Bulgarian people who fought for the salvation of the Bulgarian Jews and in memory of the Jews of Thrace, Macedonia, and Pirot, who were murdered in the Treblinka Nazi death camp
Shmuel Benjamin Bachar, Chief Rabbi of Plovdiv's Jews, at a reception for David Ben-Gurion during Ben-Gurion's December 1944 visit to the city
The history of Bulgaria during World War II encompasses an initial period of neutrality until 1 March 1941, a period of alliance with the Axis powers until 8 September 1944, and a period of alignment
The Holocaust in Bulgaria
…provisioned for 20,000 Jews from the "New Lands" to be deported. As there were only 12,000 Jews there the remaining 8,000 were to be deported from "Old Bulgaria". The communities in Kyustendil and Plovdiv were targeted first, followed by Dupnitza, Gorna Dzhumaya and Pazardzhik. On 2 March, the Council of Ministers…
German Wehrmacht officers in Bulgaria in 1939
Bulgarians entering Southern Dobruja in Romania per the Treaty of Craiova (1940)
Bulgarian invasion of southern Yugoslavia (Vardar Macedonia, April 1941)
Bulgarian invasion of eastern Serbia (Western Outlands, April 1941)