In a letter to the president of the National Assembly Tsetska Tsacheva, the Union of Bulgarian Immigrants in Israel has expressed deep recognition and gratitude towards the people of Bulgaria for the rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews during the Second World War.

March 10th, 2012 marks 69 years since the salvation of the Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the death camps, writes Mr. Jeki Arueti, President of the Union of Bulgarian Immigrants to Israel. In the letter he recalls the gloomy war years, when the government of Bulgaria was preparing a plan for the deportation of the Jewish population and in Bulgaria, an ally of Germany, a wave of protest started to arise.

“The progressive Bulgarian society, the clergy and the intelligentsia took firmly and courageously a stand in defense of their compatriots – Jews. This lead to the revocation of the hellish plans and to the rescue of the entire Bulgarian Jewry from a certain death. Against the backgrounds of the looming Holocaust, Bulgaria had remained the only country to not allow such fate for its own Jewish citizens” notes the letter.

On this occasion the Union of Bulgarian Immigrants to Israel expresses its deepest recognition and gratitude towards the Bulgarian people. This act remains a bright page in the history of the Jewish people, writes further Mr. Arueti.