Bulgaria Lauded for Saving Jews
Shulamit Shamir, the wife of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir, returned to her native country Wednesday to thank “the noble Bulgarian people” for saving 50,000 Jews in 1943 from the Holocaust.
Addressing a symposium organized by Bulgarian officials and the nation’s tiny Jewish community, she said Israel will never forget what Bulgaria had done.
“Glory to the noble Bulgarian people and may it be blessed,” she said.
Leaders of the country’s 3,000-member Jewish community were present as the two-day symposium opened amid fanfare showing it had support from the Communist leadership.
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