Rescue of The Bulgarian Jews (2017)
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Written, directed, and produced by Christian Aleksandrov
This video was created as part of the capstone for HST 401: Genocide in the Modern World, Syracuse University, 2017.
This presentation is for educational purposes only. Opinions or points of view expressed in this presentation represent the view of the presenter.
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I have so deep fondness towards Bulgarians.. 😍💎
Thanks!
I have never heard about this. Thank you for this information
I am very proud of you, Christy!!
great presentation my man
I am Bulgarian and proud what we did to save Jewish lives
I am disappointed why Hollywood and Spielberg don’t make a movie about it
Shame
They should make a movie about the 13000 Jews from Macedonia , Greece and other occupied areas that were sent to death by the Bulgarian government to their deaths by orders from the Bulgarian leaders. Go to the Holocaust Museum and learn the truth.
Congratulations, brother, great presentation!!!
Отлично, братле!! Страхотна работа!
Kudos!
bravo mate :)
Great documentary! Please make a follow up video about how the Bulgarian Government deported 9000 Macedonian Jews! Almost the entire Jewish population of Macedonia!
На право ма е срам.
Although a lot of Jewish people in Bulgaria couldn't escape a fatal destiny and those who could, didn't live a safe and happy life nonetheless, I consider the spine and moral strength of the civil society to be an important and instructive ANTIDOTE to all the apologetic narratives of collective silence. It shows that there is an alternative to mute conformity and destructive compliance.
However I am also wondering how Bulgarian society organized and structured itself in terms of ethnic relations. Maybe their society never fell victim to severe ethnic disputes to begin with. Maybe they had found better ways to deal with it in the past. Hence, maybe they haven't developed a deeply rooted need for scapegoating 'the other'. Maybe they had more sensible leaders.
Unlike their serbo-croatian neighboring countries, their ethnic diversity wasn't structured in a way, that the presence of other ethnicities became a serious threat to the dominant group. Compared to the slavic Bulgarian population, the minority groups were numerically rather less significant.
I doubt that Bulgaria was an antisemitism-free country, but the ottoman rule shaped its society and all its peoples differently from middle and western Europe and also different from ex-yugoslawian societies. Bulgarian Jews were not banned to the commerce sector, they didn't develop the same kind of commercial strength. They were mostly average people like anybody else, therefore the discourse of economic envy couldn't really be established in Bulgaria.
But let's not forget that the Jews who escaped death camps were gathered up in restricted areas and were forced to labor (which is actually the definition of a concentration camp). Bulgarian rulers exploited their labor for themselves instead of the Germans.
Their leaders weren't brave enough withdraw from deportations, the civil society stood up!
Plus I question whether the government had decided that way if the German wehrmacht hadn't been on a loosing trail.
Bulgarian Jews might have been saved from extermination camps, but if you genuinely want to save the life and dignity of a man, you don't compromise on enslaving him instead of killing him.
Did the Bulgarian civil society knew about that? Did they compromise on that? Did they agree on that?
Sorry for the very, very long text.
But coming from a country with a very violent and fatally destructive society/country, I have learned to be sceptical about the discursive narratives. Especially narratives about heroic gestures make me pretty suspicious. Wherever people pass on stories about people's greatness, you'll always find a rather sinister contradictory story.
I deeply appreciate the moral courage of the civil society for that matter, but I don't validate the political leadership for it.
I don't validate the clergy's or the intellectuals' contributions the same way as the population's. Even if they hadn't succeeded with their protests, their motivation comes from pure humanity rather than political strategies or philosophical endeavors. They didn't need a leadership to tell them how to act. They heard rumors about death, they saw people disappearing and watched them being taken away. That was enough for them to raise their voices. It's that story that is worth telling. Not some politician's or some cleric's.
And above all, it's the sufferer's story that will tell the truth about human moral agency...
This is lie
Where are you from Lidija? I think...to understand well what happened you should know more deeply also the political situation in Bulgaria between the two wars...
@@lidijajuric6771 You are free to dig for a "sinister contradictory story" but beforehand be real for a second... OF COURSE only if you want to claim objectivity for your short academic paper you typed here. Otherwise I would consider it very fine provocation ;) Peace!
It was Second World War. Bulgaria was suffering punishments and had refugees from occupied by Serbia, Greece,Turkey and Romania territories with a majority Bulgarian population. Any fourth Bulgarian was a refugee who escaped ethnic cleansing. You cannot look at events as they happened outside of Global war. Croatian Ustashi and Serbian Chetniks themselves killed Jews. Latter Yugotaliban partisans did bigger atrocities against German,Italian, Albanian and Bulgarian ethnicity after the war finished. Booldturtsty Yugotaliban society did not leive even 1 Danubian Swabian, Dalmatian Italian, Bulgarian identity was punished with execution and forbidden.Even those who fought against Nazi occupation as Partizans were executed after the war because wanted to remain Bulgrians You cannot speak out of context geography and time. In comparison with crimes bloodtersty Tito criminals during peace Bulgarians conduct during the war is for example.
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