Bulgarian Holocaust memorial defaced

Shalom Organization President Alexander Oscar  thanked the mayor, who ordered that the graffiti be ceaned up immediately, for his firm statement and quick actio.

Mayor Tsenkov  stressed that the monument “will continue to be a symbol of the brotherhood and a long history between our two peoples”, according to the JTA report.

In 1943, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, along with a group ofpoliticians and many members of civil society stood up to the Nazis and prevented Jews being deported to the death camps.

Next year will mark the 75 anniversary of Bulgarian opposition to the deprtation of the the country’s 50, 000 Jews.

Despite that success, more than 11,000 Jews from parts of northern Greece and Yugoslavia, territories which were under Bulgarian administration during World War II, were deported and killed.