Mass-arrests of Jews in Bulgaria were reported here today as a result of an attempted assassination in Sofia of a radio engineer, Janakiev, known to be one of the Bulgarian agents of the Gestapo. In ...

Jews in Bulgaria who are Spanish citizens today appealed to the Jewish Community Council to protest against the government decree providing payment of compensation for losses and damages only to ...

"We want to stay in Bulgaria, stay in Europe and continue to exist,” says Maxim Delchev, executive director of the umbrella organization of Bulgarian Jewry.The post Bulgarian Jews seek to ...

Bulgaria’s president was on hand on Friday for a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the country’s dramatic decision to save its 48,000 Jews from the Nazis. So were representatives of the ...

Dr. Samuel Refetoff as a child (right) with his parents and a childhood friend. During World War II, millions of Jews in Europe scrambled to find refuge from Hitler and his murderous Fascist forces.

Bulgaria is marking 80 years ago since its King ordered a halt to Jewish deportations to Nazi camps, saving 50,000 lives - but the country's heroic reputation for its defiance of Hitler is coming ...

A Jewish group and a liberal party in Bulgaria have condemned a march to honor an anti-Semitic general from the 1930s. The Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria and the Movement for Rights and ...

This list is part of an ongoing investigative project the Forward first published in January 2021 documenting hundreds of monuments around the world to people involved in the Holocaust. We are ...

Wednesday and Thursday marked Yom HaShoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year commemorates 80 years since the end of the atrocities that killed six million Jews. According to the ...