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Proceedings of People's Court Session No. 9 in Sofia, 16 March 1945

Proceedings of People's Court Session No. 9 in Sofia, 16 March 1945 Proceedings from the seventh panel of the court (for the judgement of the anti-Semites) 16 March 1945 (pp. 720-834 in the court session proceedings) - List of 51 witnesses some who did not appear; - Testimony of 13 witnesses: 1. Dimo Kazasov (Righteous Among the Nations), the Minister; 2. Menahem Faionov, the lawyer; 3. Grigor Cheshmedzhiev, the Minister; 4. Isak Fransez, the lawyer; 5. Dr. Iosif Confino- functioned as a physician on the deportation trains with the Jews of Thrace from Simitli to Gorna Dzhumaya; 6....

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Testimony, Protocol

Language : Bulgarian

Memoirs of Menahem Moshonov on the events that transpired in Bulgaria during World War II

Memoirs of Menahem Moshonov on the events that transpired in Bulgaria during World War II Letter Moshonov sent to Hayim Keshales, 18 April 1961, on his work as a goldsmith near the king's palace, his Zionist activities and the efforts to ease the situation of the Jews in labor battalions, end of 1942-beginning 1943, and on the events that transpired in Sofia on 24 May 1943.

File Number : 262

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Bulgarian

Documentation of the Jewish Scientific Institute in Bulgaria, 1947-1951

Documentation of the Jewish Scientific Institute in Bulgaria, 1947-1951 Notes and letters written by the head of the institute, Eli Eshkenazi on the purchase of old books and objects of the Jewish religious life in the Balkans including memoirs of the war years; Critique on the book of Rabbi Daniel Zion Tradition and Jewish Festivals including samples of incorrect translations to Ladino; Article of Dr. Salvator Israel in the Tribuna newspaper on the history of the institute and the transfer of more than 2,000 old Hebrew books from the 16th century and the procedure to the Balkanology Institute near the...

File Number : 208

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Excerpt(s), Research Article, Manifesto

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, French, Ladino

Testimonies presented before the People's Court in Bulgaria in 1945 regarding the events that transpired in Sofia during 24 May 1943 and the camps in Somovit and Tabakova Cheshma

Testimonies presented before the People's Court in Bulgaria in 1945 regarding the events that transpired in Sofia during 24 May 1943 and the camps in Somovit and Tabakova Cheshma Testimonies include those of Violete Faionova, Menahem Faionov, Daniel Zion and Eli Eshkenazi.

File Number : 198

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Bulgarian

Testimonies presented before the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1945, on labor battalions, 1941-1944

Testimonies presented before the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1945, on labor battalions, 1941-1944 Testimonies of three Jews on their experiences in labor battalions in Lovech, Smedovo, Chepino, Triavna, Verinsko, General Todorovo, Ihtiman, Zvanichevo, Gara Rupel and Sestrimo including instances of abuse; memoirs of Menahem Moshonov titled Rescue of the Participants in Labor Battalions from Deportation to Germany.

File Number : 197

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Bulgarian

Correspondence of Benjamin Arditti with prominent personalities among Bulgarian Jewry, 1944-1955

Correspondence of Benjamin Arditti with prominent personalities among Bulgarian Jewry, 1944-1955 Correspondence of Benjamin Arditti with M. Kalev, Daniel Zion, Eli Basan and Vitalis Nachmias on the following topics: Outlook of former Rabbi Daniel Zion on his conversion to Christianity; Activities of the Committee for Rescue the Jews from Bulgaria in the United States with Jacques Aseoff as the chairman and Vitalis Nachmias as his secretary during the war; Friendship of Benjamin Arditti with Vitalis Nachmias and problems of the Zionist movement in Bulgaria and Israel including Arditti's comments of the...

File Number : 25

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Bulgarian, French, Ladino

Documentation on the history of Bulgarian Jewry from the Spanish Inquisition until World War II

Documentation on the history of Bulgarian Jewry from the Spanish Inquisition until World War II The file also includes: Notes on the Sephardi Jews community in Bulgaria including their experiences after the liberation from the Ottoman Empire in 1878; Notes on books on the history of the Zionist movement and history of the Sephardi Jews.

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Bibliography, Personal Documents

Language : Bulgarian, Hebrew, German