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Bulgarian Anti-fascists Jews
Five hundred and ninety-three Jews
were held prisoner from June 9th, 1923, until September 9th, 1944. Jews gave 26
casualties in the September Uprising and the events in April 1925; 10 Bulgarian
Jewish ant-fascists gave their life fighting abroad; 69 died in the ant-fascist
struggle in Bulgaria; 10 lost their lives in the Kaylaka detention camp near
Pleven; 57 died in the 1944-1945 Patriotic War.
Jewish ant-fascists, political prisoners, prisoners at concentration camps,
fighters in the Patriotic War – all people who sacrificed their today so we
could have our tomorrow.
‘We must note that regardless of the great power of the entire propaganda
apparatus of the government placed in the service in the anti-Semitic cause in
Bulgaria, the Bulgarian people in its entirety did not fall for such propaganda
and remained true to its original positions from the beginning until the end. To
the Jews it remained sympathetic as to neighbors with whom it had lived years in
the spirit of equality and religious tolerance.’ Extract from the Indictment of
the Anti-Semitics Panel VII of the People’s Court, enacted in February 1945.
Apart from the regents, the ministers, and the deputies who had implemented and
conducted anti-Semitic policies during the years of the Second World War,
another 64 people were also sentenced thereby.
List of freedom fighters against fascism held prisoner from June 9th, 1923,
until September 9th, 1944, among them 593 Bulgarian Jews.
Central National Archives,
Fund 88, Inventory 7, Record Unit 2
Natan Leon Silberstein (1917-unknown). Member of the Workers’ Youth
Union. Left for France to study electric engineering. Become active in the
resistant movement. Arrested by Gestapo. Deported to Oswiecim.
Leon Tadjer among workers from the port of Rousse before the 1941
sabotage.
Emil Shekerdjiyski. Active member of the Bulgarian Communist Youth Union
and the Bulgarian United People’s Student Union. Killed in a shootout by the
police on August 3rd, 1944.
Mati Rubenova. Partisan. Killed in a shootout on September 5th, 1944,
near the village of Straldha, Yambol district.
Retreat for prisoners of the Krasto pole (Enikyoy) concentration camp. 1942-1943
Mois Levi. Member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian
Communist Party. Killed at the police headquarters in Plovdiv on March 3rd,
1943.
Bucco Levi (kolka). Fighter of the Dimitar Kalyashki partisan squad.
Killed near the village of Yastrebets.
Entrance to the Krasto pole (Enikyoy) concentration camp. Here Bulgarian
anti-fascists, among them Jews, served their sentences under maximum police
security.
Vera Rubenova. Member of the Sofia Battle Groups |
