Testimony of Yitzhak Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Cepelare and Plovdiv

Testimony of Yitzhak Levi, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1928, regarding his experiences in Cepelare and Plovdiv Traditional family with five children; his father is a house painter; financially secure; life in Bulgaria and the King of Bulgaria's sympathy toward the Jews, 1939; elimination of the King of Bulgaria; active Jewish community life and mutual aid between Jews; good relations with the Christians. German occupation and deportation to Pazardzhik with his family and then to Cepelare; decrees and the yellow badge; deportation to a village, one year later; rescue of the Sofia deportees and their move to Plovdiv by the Jewish Agency; help from the local Plovdiv Jewish population; deportation of his father to a labor camp; strengthening of the anti-fascist partisans, 1944; activities against the Germans and their collaborators; end of the war, 1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel via Yugoslavia and then by ship with a group of young people; enlists in the IDF in the War of Independence; his family joins him in Israel, nine months later; marriage, 1948.