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1940 – voices in defense of Jews

Exposition by the Central Jewish Consistory in Bulgaria to the Chairman of the National Assembly against the Nation Protection Bill,

Sofia, October 21st, 1941

Central National Archives,

Fund 173K, Inventory 6, Record Unit 1087, Sheets 89, 95

Exposition by the Managing Board of the Bulgarian Lawyers’ Union against the Nation Protection Bill.

Sofia, October 30, 1941

Central National Archives,

Fund 173K, Inventory 6, Record Unit 1087, Sheets 42-45

Minutes of the plenary session of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Christian Orthodox Church where the report of the delegation which conducted meetings with the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Nation Protection Bill was presented.

Sofia, December 19th, 1940

Central National Archives,

Fund 891K, Inventory 1, Record Until 65, Sheets 90-96

In support of the Nation Protection Bill were organizations such as the Union of Bulgarian Reserve Officers, the Union of Bulgarian Non-Commissioned Officers of the Reserve, the National Students’ Union, the Otets Paisiy Youth Christian Movement.
The public reacted with violent discontent already upon publication of the Bill in October 1940 and during the discussion of Section II Regarding Persons from Jewish Descent. In open letters, expositions, telegrams to the Chairman of the National Assembly, the Prime Minister, and various Ministers, people form the Third Sofia Municipality, 21 Bulgarian Writers, the Managing Board of the Bulgarian Lawyers’ Union, lawyers from Vidin, business assistants, doctors, citizens from various constituencies of Sofia, youth from the Sugar Factory, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Christian Orthodox Church, various Bulgarian artist societies, workers and students from Plovdiv, declared themselves openly against the bill. All of them protested against the underlying principles of discrimination and condemned the bill as anti-constitutional, void of social purpose, and shameful.

The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Christian Orthodox Church.

Telegrams of protest by citizens and organizations to the National Assembly against the Nation Protection Bill being reviewed,

Sofia, November 1940

Central National Archives,

Fund 173K, Inventory 6, Record Unit 1087, Sheets 84, 75, 74, 76, 80, 81

List of deputies requesting permission to speak on the Nation Protection Bill.

Central National Archives,

Fund 173K, Inventory 6, Record Unit 1087, Sheet 247

Leaflet against the Nation Protection Bill introduced in the National Assembly.
Central National Archives,

Fund 18B, Inventory 1, Record Unit 249, Sheet 1

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