THANK YOU FOR COVERING GREECE AND NORTH AFRICA! My grandparents come from each of these places perspectively and the holocaust completely severed their history and connection to the faith. Thank you!!
To be honest from what I've heard being Bulgarian where this is a hot topic and also having conversations Jewish people; and the of my grandmother - i don't understand the logic, but the rule obviously applied at the time - occupied territories in WWII were treated with by double standards. I don't get this - I know from my grandmother there were protests all over the place about Jewish deportations; and the church stood against pushing the Tzar who told Hitler he needed Jews for a railroad construction projects. I have no clue why the Bulgarian administration acted differently in the occupied territories. I know in BG it was not the passport, my Grandmother, said they actually didn't holocaust until long after the war, they against deporting Jewish friends to foreign labor camps, the common people had idea about mass murder; so my take is probably the guys who were in charge didn't know what was going on in Treblinka. But they clearly applied double standard, so did Germans and others. Now the official Bulgarian historiographic position, is Bulgaria could no't say No to Germany on occupied territories, because they were handed over by Germany to Bulgarian administration and Bulgaria had no military presence in Macedonia, since most people identified as Bulgarian at the time. Now I'm not sure if they had a choice, but what happened is an unfair double standard. What I know from the my grandmother and her Jewish friebd stories and few Bulgarian I know who remained - they were were well known and integrated in Bulgarian society. Hitler's ideological question of Jewish loyalty appeared to be accepted at war time, with several murder attempts of the Bulgarian Tzar by Communist radicals who happened to be Jewish, but murder could not be justified by any standards. The Bulgarian Orthodox church kind of stopped this by announcing that all Jews are Christians who don't go to church, theu were baptized forcefully by Byzantines, and must be treated as Christians (aka as human beings in the Orthodox Christian dogma worldview). Speaking of the fate of BG Jews, they were not deported and overall they were supported by friends and not seen as different than in until the Nazi came., But on fate -ntisemitic laws accepted by the German puppet government; all Jewish organizations and schools were. They property was taken out, some were sent to labor camps. The trading mall which still stands in front of the synagogue in Sofia - it had a large table sign "entrance for dogs and Jews". So situation of Bulgarian Jewry in 1943, was and in 1944 when the Communist came, they were against antisemtism, Jews were ok in Communism as long as they didn't do Jewish things and acted Atheist in public; but Communist had plans for collectivisation, so they didn't return any of the Jewish that was taken by Nazi. But to me the fact that 80 % left the country immediately after 1948 speaks - and there a decade laterbably they life was not easy
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Informative ..thank you very much! God bless you more. I learned a lot!
THANK YOU FOR COVERING GREECE AND NORTH AFRICA!
My grandparents come from each of these places perspectively and the holocaust completely severed their history and connection to the faith.
Thank you!!
Sephardi Salonikan Greek now living in London,England.Thankyou for this important video.
To be honest from what I've heard being Bulgarian where this is a hot topic and also having conversations Jewish people; and the of my grandmother - i don't understand the logic, but the rule obviously applied at the time - occupied territories in WWII were treated with by double standards.
I don't get this - I know from my grandmother there were protests all over the place about Jewish deportations; and the church stood against pushing the Tzar who told Hitler he needed Jews for a railroad construction projects.
I have no clue why the Bulgarian administration acted differently in the occupied territories. I know in BG it was not the passport, my Grandmother, said they actually didn't holocaust until long after the war, they against deporting Jewish friends to foreign labor camps, the common people had idea about mass murder; so my take is probably the guys who were in charge didn't know what was going on in Treblinka. But they clearly applied double standard, so did Germans and others.
Now the official Bulgarian historiographic position, is Bulgaria could no't say No to Germany on occupied territories, because they were handed over by Germany to Bulgarian administration and Bulgaria had no military presence in Macedonia, since most people identified as Bulgarian at the time. Now I'm not sure if they had a choice, but what happened is an unfair double standard.
What I know from the my grandmother and her Jewish friebd stories and few Bulgarian I know who remained - they were were well known and integrated in Bulgarian society.
Hitler's ideological question of Jewish loyalty appeared to be accepted at war time, with several murder attempts of the Bulgarian Tzar by Communist radicals who happened to be Jewish, but murder could not be justified by any standards.
The Bulgarian Orthodox church kind of stopped this by announcing that all Jews are Christians who don't go to church, theu were baptized forcefully by Byzantines, and must be treated as Christians (aka as human beings in the Orthodox Christian dogma worldview).
Speaking of the fate of BG Jews, they were not deported and overall they were supported by friends and not seen as different than in until the Nazi came.,
But on fate -ntisemitic laws accepted by the German puppet government; all Jewish organizations and schools were. They property was taken out, some were sent to labor camps. The trading mall which still stands in front of the synagogue in Sofia - it had a large table sign "entrance for dogs and Jews".
So situation of Bulgarian Jewry in 1943, was and in 1944 when the Communist came, they were against antisemtism, Jews were ok in Communism as long as they didn't do Jewish things and acted Atheist in public; but Communist had plans for collectivisation, so they didn't return any of the Jewish that was taken by Nazi.
But to me the fact that 80 % left the country immediately after 1948 speaks - and there a decade laterbably they life was not easy
Thank you very much.
I am direct descendant of the Sephardic people who were ousted by the spanish crown and the Spanish Inquisition in 1492.
Nicely done
I had Sephardic ancestry long ago but they abandoned Judaism in 1600s I’ve no religion or ethnicity affiliation and plan to keep it that way.
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