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1943 – the Doomed

Following the escalated German pressure on Bulgaria to ‘deal with the Jewish matter completely’ an agreement was signed on February 22nd, 1943 for the deportation of ’20 000 Jews initially’ from the New Territories, where the word new was crossed out already in the title of the document and it applied virtually to all Jews. The agreement was signed by Bulgarian Commissary for the Jewish Question Alexander Belev, and German representative, SS Hauptsturmfürer Theodor Dannecker. Dannecker had been in Bulgaria since the beginning of January 1943 in the capacity of councilor to the German military attaché on the Jewish questionand had already been involved in the deportation of French Jews. The secret agreement so made needed the sanction of the Councils of Ministers but would not be discussed in the National Assembly.

Report by the German councilor on the Jewish question in Sofia SS Hauptsturmfürer Dannecker to the Chief Imperial Security Service, Attache Department, in Berlin, regarding the arrangements for the deportation of 20 000 Jews from Bulgaria, Sofia.

February 23rd, 1943.

Central National Archives, KMF 06


Decree on Nationality in the Territories Liberated in 1941.

Central National Archives,

Fund 176K, Inventory 32, Record Unit 183, Sheet 1


Part of My Recollections around the Jewish Question in Bulgaria – the Persecution, memoirs of Stefan, Metropolitan Bishop of Sofia and Bulgarian Exarch. Village of Banya, Karlovo region. October 17th, 1950
Central National Archives,

Fund 1568K, Inventory 1, Record Unit 188, Sheet 1

Deportation of Jews from Macedonia. 1943.

Central National Archives,

Fund 1568K, Inventory 1


Agreement signed between Alexander Belev, Commissary for the Jewish Question and SS Hauptsturmfürer Theodor Dannecker, German Commissioner for the deportation of Jews to the eastern German provinces. Sofia.

February 22nd, 1943.

Central National Archives,

Fund 190K, Inventory 1, Record Unit 8518, Sheet 1-3

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