Tag #123056 - Interview #95883 (Gitli Alhalel)

The people in Vidin also discussed a lot the demonstration on 24th May 1943 [24] in Sofia against the internment of the Sofia Jews and the deportation of the Bulgarian Jews [25]. That demonstration started from the Jewish school in Iuchbunar [26], the present-day 134th Dimcho Debelyanov High School and continued to Klementina Sq, where the Jewish Home stands today. [Bet Am] [27] People said that the police caught up with the demonstrators there, dispersed them and arrested many people. Many other were pushed in lorries and transported to labor camps [28]. That demonstration was led by rabbi Daniel [29], who later hid at Bishop Stephan’s place [Exarch Stephan] [30]. The Sofia bishop definitely supported the Jews at that time.