On this Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel), we share with you the remarkable story of the chief rabbi of Sofia and his role in saving the Jews of Bulgaria during World War II. Although an ally of Germany, Bulgaria resisted all pressure to send her Jews to the camps in Poland and as a result not one Bulgarian Jew was lost to the Holocaust! Till today scholars research and probe for reasons for this improbable stance of one small country against Hitler’s “final solution.” A tolerant society and a vigorous religious and intellectual tradition are among the reasons given, but none really satisfy. Joseph Shulam, from a Jewish Bulgarian family, recounts the story of one believer in Yeshua and the part he played in saving the Jews of Bulgaria.

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