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Bulgaria's Schindler |
| Section: LIFE / PROFILE |
| Author: Norbert J. Yasharoff |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,074 Words, 13,561 Characters |
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Except for a small number of historians, Holocaust researchers, and leaders of Jewish organizations, very few people know the story of Dimitar Peshev--vice president of Bulgaria's National Assembly during World War II. While Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning Schindler's List vividly showcased the exploits of Oscar Schindler, whose heroic acts rescued over twelve hundred Jews from the claws of the Nazi extermination machine, Peshev was responsible for saving all the Jews living within the boundaries of wartime Bulgaria--a number reaching close to fifty thousand. His story, so long ignored, richly deserves to be told.
The commemorative plaque on the wall in the "Bulgarian corner" of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., does not tell the whole story. It says:
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...whelming majority of Bulgarians were not anti-Semitic, espoused religious tolerance, and were sympathetic to the plight of the Jews. Therefore, it was only fitting that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum honored the visiting president of Bulgaria, Zhelyu Zhelev, at a special commemorative program on February 14, 1995--an expression of gratitude to the people of Bulgaria for their noble deeds.
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