Shabtai Brakha

Testimony of Shabtai Brakha, born in 1939 in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, about his experiences in Bulgaria Parents' home; family of Sephardi origin; grandfather owns a café; grandmother works for the Jewish burial society; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish laws and "Law for the Protection of the Nation"; prohibition of circulating in the city center; wearing the yellow star; receiving information for father from railroad station manager; asking Minister Vladimir Gabrielov to rescind the order; father taken to a labor camp and abused; life in Kyustendil during the war; bread thrown at Jews who are being deported from Saloniki by train to Auschwitz; father returns from labor camp at war's end; deciding to leave Bulgaria due to antisemitism; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.