Ode to the Righteous Bulgarian Gentiles

Lily’s Song: Soloist Neli Andreeva sings in front of the Philip Kutev National Folklore Ensemble. Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/139203/#ixzz1QfRHBoEz By Menachem Wecker 29/6/2011 Church, King and People Are All Celebrated in a Musical Festival When several trains entered Bulgaria secretly on March 8, 1943, to deport 8,000 Jews to Polish concentration camps, the Bulgarian Parliament, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Bulgarian people opposed the anti-Semitic plot so vehemently that Nazi-sympathetic Alexander Belev, chairman of the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs, had to back down. Other attempts to deport Jews from Bulgaria were similarly thwarted