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Summary:

"A profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust. During World War II, even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich, it never deported its Jewish community. Until recently, this image of Bulgaria as a European exception has prevailed-but at a cost. For it ignored the roundup of almost all the Jews living in the Yugoslav and Greek territories under Bulgarian occupation between 1941 and 1944, who were in fact deported to Poland, where they were murdered. In this new English translation of her work orginally published in French, Nadège Ragaru presents a riveting, wide-ranging archival investigation encompassing 80 years and six countries (Bulgaria, Germany, the United States, Israel, North Macedonia and Serbia), in doing so exploring the origins and perpetuation of this heroic narrative of Bulgaria's past. Moving between legal and political spheres, from artistic creations to museum exhibits, from the writing of history to transnational public controversies, she shows how the Holocaust north of the Danube became a "rescue" to the river's south. She traces how individual merits were turned into "national" achievements, while blame for the deportations was planted squarely on Nazi Germany. And she illuminates how discussions on the Holocaust in Bulgaria were held hostage to Cold War dynamics before 1989, only to yield to political and memorial struggles afterwards. Ultimately, she restores Jewish voices to the story of their own wartime trauma"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Front Cover
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Judicial Production of an Account of Anti-Jewish Persecution
• Chapter 2. Deportation of the Jews, from Belomorie to the Screen
• Chapter 3. The Deportation of Jews from Northern Greece
• Chapter 4. Accounts of "Rescue" and Deportation in Dialogue
• Chapter 5. Fruitful Disputes?
• Conclusion
• Appendix. The March 1943 Deportations from Territories Occupied by Bulgaria
• Bibliography
• Index

Author/Creator:

Ragaru, Nadège , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust: on the origins of a heroic narrative [by Ragaru, N.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust [by Ragaru, N.] (Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2023 — ISBN 9781648250705; LCCN 2023016710)

Related Series:

Rochester studies in East and Central Europe; [volume] 32

Subjects:

Jews — Bulgaria — History — 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 — Jews — Rescue — Bulgaria

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Bulgaria — History

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — North Macedonia — History

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Thrace — History

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) — Serbia — Pirot — History

World War, 1939-1945 — Deportations — Sources

Jews rescue (World War) (1939-1945)

World War (1939-1945)

Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)

1900-1999

Jews

North Macedonia

Mediterranean Region — Thrace

Serbia — Pirot

Bulgaria

Genres:

Sources

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS135.B8 R343 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781805431053 (pdf)
1805431056
9781805431046 (epub)
1805431048
9781648250705 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2023016711

OCLC Numbers:

1393656153