Michael Bar-Zohar - The Saving of Bulgaria's Jews
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- (March 11, 2013) Award-winning Israeli historian and novelist Michael Bar-Zohar visits the American University in Bulgaria and recounts the amazing story of how Bulgaria's Jews were saved during World War II.
Born in Bulgaria, Professor Bar-Zohar studied economics and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also studied at the Institute of Political Science in the University of Paris, where he earned a PhD. Bar-Zohar has also been elected to the Israeli government in the 1980s and early 1990s. Professor Bar-Zohar is also an AUBG honorary degree holder.
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Wow, I haven't heard anybody speaking like this for my country, thank you.
All the truth, from one of the most informed person in the world on this matter! Prof.Bar Zohar deserves the highest Bulgaria state awards !!! Telling the truth is always saving the world!
God Bless you, prof.Zohar!!!
Thank you for the video I feel pride as Bulgarian .God bless you!
Моята малка прекрасна България с голямо ❤️...какви хора са живяли тук...! Поклон пред паметта им.
Как може само 62 харесвания,!!!! НИКОЙ не е правил това за България, което този човек прави !
Това е абсолютно невярно твърдение. Всички евреи много добре знаят за това и са дълбоко признателни на България и често се изнасят подобни лекции навсякъде по света, а и освен това това видео е снимано в американския колеж в България.
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The clue in this story, besides the greatness of the Bulgarian people is, tha Boris was the owner of Bulgaria indeed, not due to his power, but due to his huge, enormous, incredible popularity. Take him out and you loose stable Bulgria. That ìs why the Boris himself is the main saviour of the Bulgrian Jews.
the clergy also had a say. and the clergy was influenced by the people. both mitropolitans of Sofia and Plovdiv were instrumental in stopping the deportation.
@@thatisme3thatisme38 both the clergy and tsar Boris were essential in the making of this miracle
The Jews of Bulgaria-proper were saved in spite of Boris, not because of him. If Boris was not confronted by the Bulgarian people, the Jews of Bulgaria-proper would have ended in Treblinka, where Boris sent the Jews of the "new lands".
@@skladzasnimki6th818oh, not at all! Nothing happened in the country without his will. He is entirely agreed with all the people.
Yes, Boris III was a real statesman. We don't have such statesmen now.
Where are the film makers?? Wonderful true story!!! Have it filmed in beautiful Bulgaria
We have an insane amount of amazing stories, worth filming, people who would now be an inspiration. And they don't need to be changed and made more interesting, because they already are almost incredible. The thing is our country is quite unpopular. People either know nothing of it, sometimes that it even exists, or for some reason our reputation is horrible.
Our national heroes, our rulers, battles - take any event or historical personality, start to read, and it's stunning. I am not saying it because they are part of the history of my country. I am making comparisons. Hollywood makes moves of these amazing people, and when you start to read about them - half of these stories are made up. Take any famous Bulgarian - they have better, more interesting stories. Take the Vazov family - generals, war heroes, mayor of the capital, the most important writer of the Bulgarian literature, then a minister of culture... Take Elisaveta Karamihailova - Poland has Marie Curie, we have Elisaveta. The story of Yana Yazova alone would make a movie that Hollywood would dream of. No need to add details - her story has everything. Capitan Petko Voivoda - a hero for 3 countries. The story of Miss Stone Affair and the men in it- the American woman who was kidnaped in Bulgaria at the beginning of the 20th century - there are books about that. It's an amazing story, by the memories of the woman who lived through it. And I am not even mentioning the national heroes and revolutionaries here. Yet, for some reason, we are unpopular as hell. Also our self-esteem as Bulgarians for the most part is.. well a bit shaky. We still believe we are sort of the leser people of Europe with not much to offer as a value.
@@esterzach It’s because you say “we have amazing stories” as if others do not have amazing stories and it sounds like entitlement. A better way to say it is , “Here are some amazing stories”. It is neutral and shows humility.
God bless king boris 3
Tsar, the bulgarian title is tsar
Father in Heaven in Jesus holy name I ask you to please always bless the Bulgarian people and deliver from all evil.
Браво!
toi si e nash,good job
The Bulgarian army was half a million men and literally didn't loose a single battle during both world wars. Bulgaria had the strongest army on the Balkans. The main problem was the lack of good aviation but even then - the massive bombings over Bulgaria done by the USA and England did not make us capitulate. All of our pilots sacrificed in the sky. The disadvantage was 50-1 and yet still made enough damage that the bombers could not hit the vital civilian targets that they wanted. Yep, they attacked only civilian targets. Nevertheless, they were very well prepared on land, despite the technically less advanced weapons.Hitler could've crushed Bulgaria - no problem, but if he didn't had to fight the Red Army. The Bulgarian army actually defeated the Germans at Drava Czechs. They hold their position vs the Third Reich for 7 days and they were outnumbered 1:8 in manpower and 1:3 in artillery, then 133 Soviet Brigade came and we defeated them in 7 days. And that was 1000 kilometres away from Bulgaria. My point - Hitler's situation for the last 3 years of the war was really difficult and he could never in a million years loose the Balkans. If the whole army defended the country he would have to send at least 2 million soldiers only to deal with us. Most of the time during the war he could not afford to loose Bulgaria as an ally. Why do you think he called Tsar Boris - "The Fox" :) Anyway, amazing lecture, thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. It was amazing to watch trough the whole thing. And some people say there was no fascism in Bulgaria... Greetings and good health!
P.S. Bulgaria exited the pact with the Third Reich on 9.9.1944 and gave 30 000 fallen soldiers against the Germans at Drava. Still after we saved our Jews and after never attacking the USSR, neither Britain or the USA, we could not get status as an Ally.
Навистина? А пробојот на солунскиот фронт во првата светска војна а дебаклот наречен пролетна офанзива во 1944? Абе глупсон еден. Бугарија нема изгубено ни една битка која ја нема водено а другите сите ги има изгубено. Дај пријателе од дрогата и јас малку да пробам.
@@darkomiceski3755 what language is this? serbian?
@@thatisme3thatisme38 Macedonian!
@@darkomiceski3755 looks Serbian. Mixing Latin letters like J. No offense but how u expect people to understand it ?? May wanna try English dude....
@@thatisme3thatisme38 it's Bulgarian language under the influence of 45 years Yugoslav Communism. Don't mind him, he is "Macedonian". Interesting fact - Batman was also from Macedonia, because he was born in Prilep("prilep" means "bat" in Bulgarian(Macedonian) and its a city in Macedonia). What you can usually hear from "North Macedonians" is: "Умрете, бугари! Вашта мама татарска!" which basically mean (Die, Bulgarians! F**k your Tatar mother). This is just who they are now, sadly. He typed it in Bulgarian dialect and tried to offend me, but I can never be offended by such people, as you can see why.
THIS NEEDS BULGARIAN SUBTITLES
This is the old Bulgarian spirit, above any religian, this is humanity! Look at Petar Dunov, he advised the Boris the III to save the jews and also save the Bulgarians and all other citizen from that cruel inhuman war!
PetkovA - носи си гордо А-то щом си българка! Не си мени името, защото чужденците не умеят да го изговарят - нека се научат!
Daniela, Bulgaria is full of people like you after 1944. First, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church in 1922 issued an official statement about the false teachings of Roerich's follower and occultist Elena Blavatska - Peter Deunov. Peter Deunov excommunicated himself from the church and was called the forerunner of the Antichrist. Boris III was an Orthodox Christian, as was Peter Deunov's father. Stop spreading myths and legends, and refer to historical documents, okay? Boris III's sister Evdokia was a follower of Deunov, but not Boris III. We all know who Rudolf Steiner, Blavatsky and Roerich are. Wasn't Blavatsky the one who called Lucifer the true savior? Wasn't Deunov the one who declared himself Father? Insane...
@@sonyastefanova5785 Do you think that calling Peter Deunov the Antichrist means that he is really that ? As far as I know, Peter Deunov was excommunicated by the Church. Don't you know that at the time of Jesus, the official church (Pharisees and Saducees) rejected him and called him a follower of Belzebub ??? Use your logic. Peter Deunov has done a lot of good works to his fellow countrymen, and he has helped save the Jews, I know that ; I also know that king Boris used to seek advice from Peter Deunov. If you don't know, ask people who know and they will tell you
PUT SUBTITLES IN BULGARIAN!
Thank you ❤️!
בשם כל הבולגרים.
תודה!
Never heard of Lili Panitsa before. Such a wonderful woman
Well, live in peace, i bow before you. Having not lost your identity as Jutish but as well as a proper human beading. i cold say so much more but i think you carry the spirit of humanity..
AUB, моля сложете субтитри!
the clue is the peoples and the tzar work for normal moral reason,and the Bulgarian church is against this law,from the begining,they never back down
Excellent speech. However, some remarks. 1. The communists participated in the underground organization of some events against the Nazci actions mentioned above. 2. After 1944 the communists created a new highest position in the Bulgarian orthodox church, patriarch. BTW this position was also present in the First and Second Bulgarian empires. Metropolit Kiril was the first Bulgarian Patriarch up to his death.
and nothing bin touch in jews homes when they came back in bulgarian vilages and Sofia
"liberated" by the red army....yeah....
to some extent ordinary people thought so, my friend's grandmother, who was about 10-12 years old at the time, said that when the Red Army entered their village, people greeted the soldiers with bread and honey. The adults cried because we were finally liberated from the Germans ... For ordinary people, we were not in alliance with the Germans, but we were occupied
@@dessyvalcheva yeah because they didnt know what was coming...
@@dessyvalcheva Not true at all. Liberate from what? Germans didn't do anything wrong to anyone in Bulgaria. What the Soviets did was awful. It's all communist propaganda.
@@dessyvalchevaHow were they occupied if the Bulgarian government remained independent throughout the Hitler era? You do know that the Soviets killed 67 members of the Bulgarian parliament after they took over? Boris' brother Prince Kiril was also executed.
@@thatisme3thatisme38 Correct. Ordinary people didn't know to associate Russians with oppressive communist government.
Bulgaria going against Germany saving Jews: Good decision
Bulgaria going for communisms to be saved from Russia: Mistakes were made
Bulgaria deciding between USA and Russia: GG I'm out GL team Bulgaria.
Even before romans all nations all empire all counrty even now laing for the history off this "small unkown country" end make shure to stay poor end wick how on earth BULGARIA is the only country in the world ho melt population now in this moment ?????WAY????????
@@tonipetkov4147brat nishto ne ti se razbra😂pishi si na bg i si pitai jeba😂
МАКЕДОНИЈА НА МАКЕДОНЦИТЕ! МКД
Коя Македония- Социалистическа република Македония е на югославския пролетариат, а Република Северна Македония е на албанци, срби, роми, власи, българи, гърци и т.н.
@@ristoriste Македонците сами не знаят кои са и какви са хем са антички, хем са титови чада - , тръгнали да гледат другите.
Скрий се бе, сърбоман!
Македонците са Българи!!! Няма такава нация Македонци бе мекере!
@@nedkiryakov4824 мислам дека крајно време е да појдеш на психијатар, колку побрзо толку подобро за тебе.