From the Abstract

 

While, ultimately members of the Bulgarian government, the Bulgarian public, and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, did in fact take laudable actions which halted the deportation of between 48,000-55,000 Jews from ‘Old’ Bulgaria to German death camps in Poland—there is no reason why the Bulgarian government should continue to cover up the fact that they were indeed directly complicit in the dispossession, imprisonment and death of an unknown number of Bulgarian Jews in the major cities and slave labor camps of ‘Old’ Bulgaria such as Pleven and Sofia.

 

In addition, in United Bulgaria aka ‘New’ Bulgaria (Thrace and Macedonia)[2], the Bulgarians rounded up over 13,000 Jews from their homes, confiscated their possessions, loaded them into rail cars, and deported them to Treblinka where they were murdered... These 13,000 Jews, which have too often been overlooked by history, suffered horrible deaths with the direct participation and knowledge of the Bulgarian government in their alliance and volunteer partnership with the Nazis. The Bulgarian government was the perpetrator in the deportation and extermination of 98% percent of Macedonia’s Jews. All of the families were destroyed, all of their possessions were confiscated, and their unique living Spanish Sephardic culture was made extinct.

 

The Bulgarian government continues to whitewash its responsibility in these tragedies, as it annually celebrates saving 50,000 Jews while selectively overlooking the 13,000 lost souls it helped put to death...