Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust

Jacky Comforty is an award-winning filmmaker, oral historian, and media creator who has worked for over thirty-five years creating films and videos in the United States, Germany, Israel, and Bulgaria. Martha Bloomfield is an award-winning author, oral historian, photographer, and independent scholar who has written several books about immigrants, migrants, and the formerly homeless.

The Stolen Narrative of the Bulgarian Jews and the Holocaust, a compilation of eyewitness testimonies, archival documents, photographs, and researchers’ investigations, debunks a Holocaust myth that not only were the Jews of Bulgaria spared but it was thanks to a sympathetic government. This book provides a freshperspective on that time and place. This title is recommended for all Holocaust collections.

• List of FiguresForeword by Omer Bartov Preface Acknowledgments 00 IntroductionPart 1 Identity - Who We Are 01 The Jewish Diaspora02 The Jews of the Iberian Peninsula 03 The Jews of the Balkans04 Jewish Migration waves to the Balkans05 Jewish Life 15-19th centuriesPart 2 Collective Memory of the Balkan Jews 06 Multicultural Multi religious and multi ethnic Balkans07 Shared History08 Religious Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience09 The Balkan Wars and World War I 10 Bulgarians and Jews11 Jewish Traditions, Heritage and Community12 How Life Was13 Zionism And PatriotismPart 3 The Bulgarian Jews during Hitlerism 1933-194514 Clouds on the Horizon15 Growing Threats16 Escaping Anti-Semitism17 Law for the Defense of the Nation18 The Fox in the Chicken Coop19 Life under the Swastika: Deteriorating Conditions 20 Jewish Forced Labor Part 4 The Final Solution and Bulgaria 21 Bulgaria Prepares for the Final Solution22 Deportations23 Friends and Neighbors24 Roun