"...This article will deal with a rather obscure historical event -- the survival of Bulgaria's Jewish minority during World War II -- that is little known even to those Americans who are more knowledgeable about the grim history of the Holocaust.[4] Here, in a nutshell, are the basic facts of this extraordinary story: despite strong pressure from Berlin, none of prewar Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews were sent to die in the Nazi death camps (where, by contrast, at least 270,000 Jews from neighboring Rumania alone perished). While there can be no doubt that the compassion, decency, altruism, sense of justice, and bravery of the Bulgarian people were responsible for this remarkable feat, many other details are still in dispute, especially the controversial role played by Bulgaria's former monarch, Tsar (Bulgarian for king) Boris III (despite Mr. Foxman's rather effusive but perhaps unmerited praise for him). Even President Stoyanov's personal acceptance of the Anti-Defamation League's award is not without some historical irony as his father was a leading member of the Union of Bulgarian National Legions (better known as the Union of Legionnaires) in Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv (the birthplace of the future president). The Union of Legionnaires was a notorious fascist organization, founded in 1933 after Hitler's rise in Germany, which strongly supported the pro-Nazi Bulgarian government's plans to deport all local Jews to concentration camps in the Third Reich's new "Eastern Territories" (in this case, Nazi-occupied Poland). Hence, this article will attempt to render historical justice by giving credit only to those honorable and noble individuals who were genuinely responsible for this charitable act and to whom praise is indeed due. ..."
"The Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews in World War II"
By Rossen Vassilev
http://newpol.org/content/rescue-bulgarias-jews-world-war-ii
http://www.truthorfiction.com/bulgaria/
Vídeo da CNN da entrevista do então Primeiro Ministro búlgaro (o rei Simeon II) filho do Tsar Bóris III da Bulgária:
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/07/24/intv-amanpour-bulgaria-king-a.cnn/video/playlists/amanpour/
http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/how-bulgaria-saved-its-jews/
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