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Bułgaria i nielegalna imigracja żydowska do Palestyny w przededniu i w okresie drugiej wojny światowej
alternative title:
Bulgaria and the illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine before and during the Second World War
author:
Patek Artur
editor:
Stawowy-Kawka Irena
book title:
Międzycywilizacyjny dialog w świecie słowiańskim w XX i XXI wieku : historia - religia - kultura - polityka
date of publication
:
2012
place of publication : name of publisher:
Kraków : Księgarnia Akademicka
pages:
273-288
ISBN:
978-83-7638-199-2
series:
Societas - Księgarnia Akademicka; 42
language:
Polish
book language:
Polish
abstract in English:
Just before the Second World War and after it started, Bulgaria was one of the
transfer channels of illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine, the British mandate at
the time. There were two reasons for that. Firstly, the Balkans were one of a few
ways to escape from Europe for Jews endangered by Nazism. Secondly, Bulgaria
compared with other European countries treated its Jewish citizens significantly
better. Thanks to that, thousands of people were saved. The man who played the main
role there was Baruch Confino, a Zionist activist from Sofia. In the years 1939-1940
he organised (partly in cooperation with revisionist Zionists) eight sea transports of
illegal immigrants. In total he helped over4 thousand Jewish refugees from Germany,
Hungary, Slovakia and the occupied part of Europe. A shadow on his actions was
put by the catastrophe of the ship "Salvador" which sank in December 1940 during
storm on the Marmara Sea with about 200 victims. The Bulgarian government made
a clever move, as their actions could not be approved of in Berlin or in London which
opposed illegal inflow of Jews to Palestine.
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