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 enlarge | Author: Michael Bar-zohar
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 298
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 158062541X
Dewey Decimal Number: 940
UPC: 045079205413
EAN: 9781580625418
ASIN: 158062541X
Publication Date: October 2001
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 A story of courage during the Holocaust October 1, 2000
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
There were acts of courage that took place during the course of the Holocaust that are not very well known. Many of those courageous acts occured in a surprising place: the nation of Bulgaria in Eastern Europe. During the war Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany, and under intense pressure to surrender its' 50,000 Jewish citizens to Germany. The Jews would then be taken to their deaths in Poland. Early in 1943 plans for the deportation of the Bulgarian Jews were drawn up by Bulgarian and Nazi leaders, and the deadly process was well under way. Long empty trains began arriving at key stations in Bulgaria, ready to take the Jews to Poland. Everything was prepared for the purpose of death; meticulously planned. Within a few short hours, the Jews would be brutally herded to the trains and taken away. The Jews of Bulgaria would disappear forever in Poland, and it seemed that there was nothing that could be done to help them. But then, almost literally at the eleventh hour, the process of deportation was stopped and the Jews of Bulgaria were saved. The trains had to leave the stations, completely empty. The story of the Bulgarian leaders and citizens that moved to save the Jews at that final hour is tense and nerve-wracking. This book tells that story, and the constant battle of wits and wills between those that wished to destroy life; and those that wished to save it. This book reaches a very deep level, because it shows what can happen when people act on what they know is right. This is a book of great moral courage, at a time when it was most desperately needed.
 Truth sacrificied to sensacionalism. September 20, 2000
6 out of 24 found this review helpful
This book has value insofar reader is acquainted with the fact of the cruel act of deportation of Jews from Southern Serbia (Vardarska Banovina) and Macedonia.This was act organised by the bulgarian goverment,although at the recent conference in Stockohlm Bulgarian goverment made an attempt to obscure this fact.Therefore,regarding of the fact that book contains extremely valuable insight into WW II history,only a holistic concept could provide full picture in the participation of Bulgaria in the holocaust.
Biased Book March 28, 2000
4 out of 21 found this review helpful
Apart from the omission of the deportation of the macedonian jews by the Bulgarians, I would like to point out that at that time (and even now) all Bulgarians would have gladly deported all Turks if they had been the target of Hitler's hate. The jews just simply weren't their scapegoat. And having read the original papers of the correspondence between "Bulgaria i Tretiat Reich (Bulgaria and the Third Reich)" that were published in two extensive volumes in Bulgaria 1992 I have to say the author has not done his homework. And having read one reader's reaction thinking that this book justifies Goldhagen's thesis - I have to say it's a dangerous piece of biased writing too. Maybe the Germans are our scapegoats now.
I Can't Believe This..Holocaust Revisionism! March 13, 2000
8 out of 21 found this review helpful
The most shocking aspect of this book is that author,probably to make his subject more coherent,skiped the fact that Bulgarian police arested several thousend jews in Macedonia,and send them promptly to Treblinka.How could Jewish author possibly miss this war episode?This is most horiffic aspect of this book,regardless of the fact that it contains (half)truth about events in Bulgaria during the war.This is Revisionism remiscent of recent statement by David Irving that "Auschwitz was Disneyland builded by Poland in order to atract tourists."This book is corect if one think that arest of 7.000 jews by Bulgarians,giving them salty food and packing them into train,is act of heroic rescue!This fact is too well known to be accidentaly neglected,and that is indeed strange aspect of author's presentation of WW II Bulgaria.
Maybe Goldhagen is right December 31, 1999
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
A must read. The author has obviously done his homework. This translates into a richly detailed account of the events surrounding the persecution of Bulgarian Jews in WWII, as well as insight into the motivations of the key players of the whole affair, including Tsar Boris, Peshev, and Metropolitan Stefan. Unfortunately, the book is poorly edited, with simple grammar and organizational mistakes throughout. The translations of the quoted passages, those originally in Bulgarian, at least, sometimes leave much to be desired. This is not to take away from the author's most compelling argument, that the non-Jewish Bulgarians' lack of anti-Semitism and sense of moral decency are what saved their fellow Jewish citizens from being carted off to Treblinka. This lends historical credence to Goldhagen's assertion that the German people's indifference and anti-Semitism aided Hitler's crazed dream of "racial purification".
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