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Memoirs of Lucy (Bennozio) Kanari, born in Plovdiv, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences in Plovdiv

File Number : 8031

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Bertha Naim (b. 1935 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria), recounting her history in Plovdiv during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Bertha Naim (b. 1935 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria), recounting her history in Plovdiv during the Holocaust Family life in Plovdiv; anti-Jewish legislation; expulsion from school; father is sent to a labor camp; father falls ill; father is taken to a hospital in Plovdiv; mother is arrested after visiting her husband in the hospital for not wearing the badge of shame; mother is released; the Jews of Plovdiv, including the memoirist's family, are concentrated in the yard of the Jewish school ahead of deportation (evidently on March 8, 1943); deportation of the Jews of Plovdiv is cancelled thanks to...

File Number : 10204

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Diary of Greti Mordechai, a student at the Girls' School in Plovdiv, written 05-30 September 1943

Diary of Greti Mordechai, a student at the Girls' School in Plovdiv, written 05-30 September 1943 Written on the binding of the diary: Greti Mordechai A student in Grade V The St. Joseph School for Girls in Plovdiv On the frontispiece her name is written as "Gretty". In her diary Greti writes many words of praise for Boris III, the King of Bulgaria, who rescued the Jews. The diary begins on 05 September 1943, the day the king was buried (he died 28 August 1943). On the first page of the diary Greti writes of 10 March 1943, the day the Jews were concentrated in Plovdiv for deportation to Poland...

File Number : 9304

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Bulgarian