Mass-arrests of Jews in Bulgaria were reported here today as a result of an attempted assassination in Sofia of a radio engineer, Janakiev, known to be one of the Bulgarian agents of the Gestapo. In ...

The authorities in Nazi-occupied countries today intensified measures against the Jews on allegations of aiding Soviet Russia, announcing execution of 500 in Rumania, rounding up numerous Jews in ...

Dr. Samuel Refetoff as a child (right) with his parents and a childhood friend. During World War II, millions of Jews in Europe scrambled to find refuge from Hitler and his murderous Fascist forces.

Bulgaria’s president was on hand on Friday for a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the country’s dramatic decision to save its 48,000 Jews from the Nazis. So were representatives of the ...

North Macedonia’s demand for a Bulgarian apology for the deportation of Macedonian Jews to Treblinka during World War II has outraged some Bulgarian politicians, historians and association leaders.

A Jewish group and a liberal party in Bulgaria have condemned a march to honor an anti-Semitic general from the 1930s. The Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria and the Movement for Rights and ...

Bulgaria is marking 80 years ago since its King ordered a halt to Jewish deportations to Nazi camps, saving 50,000 lives - but the country's heroic reputation for its defiance of Hitler is coming ...

(JTA) — Bulgaria’s ambassador to Israel did not attend a conference on Bulgarian Holocaust history last week, in a move that organizers said displays her government’s attempts to whitewash that ...