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ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF THE COMMISSARIAT FOR JEWISH AFFAIRS
ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF THE COMMISSARIAT FOR JEWISH AFFAIRS

The Institution, which had to Implement the Holocaust in Bulgaria

Author(s): Ivanka Gezenko
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Jewish studies, Civil Society, Public Administration, Sociology, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, History of Judaism, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Commissariat for Jewish Affairs; anti-Jewish Legislation; Bulgaria.

Summary/Abstract: An old Jewish piece of wisdom runs: Not a single sheet of a book or document should remain unread and lost for the generations. This article presents the role of the institution of the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs in Bulgaria in its role of executing the policy of persecution of Jews. It tries to take a look and reconsider the past. To this day, however, there are unknown (or less familiar) documents patiently waiting their time to throw light on the facts revealing what happened. Once again, we have to face the ‘platitude of evil’, which was set as a whole and separately long before. The analysis is done in the context of more general picture of anti-Semitic laws in the Balkans and more generally in the European countries.

  • Issue Year: 12/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 92-109
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English