Съдбата на евреите от Югозападна България през 1940–1944 г.
The Fate of the Jews in Southwestern Bulgaria in 1940–1944

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of newly discovered and unpublished documents the author shows the unenviable camps at the town of Doupnitsa prior to their being transported to the concentration camps in Poland and Germany, and the attempts of compassionate Doupnitsa citizens to ease their lot as far as they could and, despite the strict prohibitions, supplying them with food, clothes and medicines. Stress is laid of the role of a group of members of the 25th Ordinary National Assembly, supported by eminent Bulgarian public figures and intellectuals, in opposing the decision of the Bulgarian Government to extradite also the Bulgarian Jews from the old boundaries of the State to the concentration camps in Eastern Europe. Set against the background of the struggle for rescuing the Bulgarian Jews which met with success, the author describes the selfless assistance by patriotic Bulgarians from the small towns in SW Bulgaria who offered assistance and material and moral support to the Jews.

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