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The anti-Semitic attitudes started around the 1940s. I remember the Legionaries [Bulgarian Legions] [30] and Branniks [31] on Klementina and Pirotska Str. and how they attacked the Jewish shops there [The Night of Broken Glass] [32]
[Editor's Note: the interviewee is mistaken – no Branniks took part in that incident because their organization was founded in December 1940]. Then they wanted to attack the houses but the UYW organization consisting of both Bulgarians and Jews put up a resistance. We even had help from the Bulgarians from other quarters of the town.
[Editor's Note: the interviewee is mistaken – no Branniks took part in that incident because their organization was founded in December 1940]. Then they wanted to attack the houses but the UYW organization consisting of both Bulgarians and Jews put up a resistance. We even had help from the Bulgarians from other quarters of the town.
Period
Year
1939
Location
Sofia
Bulgaria
Interview
Stela Astrukova