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  1. Bulgarian Legation in Berlin (Fond 316)

    Contains reports, correspondence, reviews of political events, and records relating to fights between Nazis and Communists, the persecution of Jews, the Leipzig trials, Kristallnacht, Nazi Congress, and the beginning of World War II. Also includes coded telegrams to the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding the opening of the second front, Soviet losses in the war, and congratulatory and condolence correspondence to German officials, including Hitler, Göring, Himmler, and von Ribbentrop.

  2. Bulgarian Legation in Moscow (Fond 3180)

    Contains diplomatic notes regarding mass murders committed by Germans in the Soviet Union and correspondence regarding Bulgarian representation of German, Hungarian, and Romanian interests in the Soviet Union.

  3. Bulgarian Legation in Stockholm (Fond 319)

    Contains list of people (including persons of Jewish origin) who were not allowed to enter Bulgaria during World War II.

  4. Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Association (Fond 349)

    Contains correspondence, personal files, declarations, and lists of members of the Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Association. Includes information regarding liquidation of Jewish pharmacies according to the Protection of the Nation Act, and report to the Ministry of Health regarding transfer of pharmacy property from Jewish to non-Jewish owners.

  5. Association of Bulgarian Dentists (Fond 356)

    Contains correspondence and list of members of the Association of Bulgarian Dentists. Includes correspondence relating to the confiscation of telephones from Jewish offices and prohibition of dental practices by Jews.

  6. Papers of Ivan Baryanov (Fond 389)

    Contains anonymous letters against the Bulgarian Government Jewish Policy, opinions and speeches regarding discrimination against Jews in Bulgaria. Also includes a letter from the Bulgarian Consulate in Prague regarding instructions about Yugoslavian problems.

  7. Papers of Virgil Dimov (Fond 4220)

    Contains correspondence, criminal cases, appeals, indictment and testimonies, and other legal papers of lawyer Virgil Dimov. Documents relate to the persecution of Komsomol members, confiscation of Jewish properties, Jewish partisans and other Jewish matters.

  8. Papers of Dr. Nikola Sakarov (Fond 366)

    Contains correspondence, clippings, articles, appeals, statements, and memoirs relating to foreign policy, public health, education, regulations for the liquidation of Jewish businesses and properties, and the Jewish question. Also includes an open letter to Stalin and Hitler from Hristo Dimitrov, political articles by Dr. Sakarov (born 1881), and notes regarding brochures by Pdarev, "Jews in Bulgaria and the World" and "Real Situation of Jews in Bulgaria."

  9. Department of Social Services (Fond 3710)

    The collection contains correspondence, decrees, and memoranda relating to the location of German troops, tax, financial, and property regulations, replacement of Jewish workers in the city of Vidin, Bulgaria, and memoranda regarding decorations, bonuses for the killing of partisans, and financial compensation for Allied bombardment.

  10. Papers of Vladimir Mateev (Fond 373)

    Contains correspondence with Fink Landau Markov regarding his life in Israel and Bulgaria.

  11. Papers of General Nikola Mikhov (Fond 427)

    Contains the diary of General Nikola Mikhov and other documents relating to the disposition of Bulgarian troops in Yugoslavia, air bombardment of Sofia, Bulgaria, and passage of German troops through Bulgaria.

  12. State Administration of Statistics (Fond 453)

    Contains census of 1934 and other statistical data related to the occupation, social situation, age, nationality, religion, language and literacy of Bulgarians. Includes a special census by population for new territories.

  13. Bulgarian Section of the League of Nations (Fond 487)

    Contains records related to antisemitism in Germany.

  14. Regional organization of the Communist Party, Sofia (Fond 18)

    Contains mainly appeals against fascism, antisemitism, and persecution of the Jews in Bulgaria. Includes an appeal from a group of Jews in Sofia, Bulgaria, to destroy fascism, to establish a government of the Fatherland Front, and to welcome the Red Army along with the Bulgarian people.

  15. Independent Workers Trade Union (Fond 38)

    Contains appeals against military preparations, military fascist government, and increasing government spending for military preparations.

  16. Justice Department (Fond 88)

    Contains correspondence related to property in Yugoslavian and Greek territories; testimonies from Bulgarian soldiers taking part in the execution of Thomas Markham, an American pilot, as well as English Major Thompson and others; correspondence with the Central Committee of National Liberation (Jewish Section) regarding Jews in jail; report regarding the property of Jews who emigrated to Palestine and a letter from the Association of Bulgarian Jews in Tel Aviv regarding this question; and other records related to the confiscation of properties during and after World War II.

  17. Records of Lyubimir Lyuchev, personal advisor to Tsar Boris III (Fond 950)

    Contains a diary, correspondence, articles, photographs, and other records of Lyubimir Lyuchev, a personal advisor to Tsar Boris III.

  18. Kan family in US postwar: at the beach

    Silver Point Beach in Rockaway, NY. Betsy on a beach blanket with several young men, including her fiancé closest to the camera. People at the beach. 01:03:17 A young man wearing glasses (Robert?) walks with a girl in a bathing suit. 01:03:24 Betsy's fiancé holds her hand to the camera and points to a ring on her finger. The two of them with Frits, walking down the boardwalk with Jeanne. Betsy walks with Frits.

  19. Papers of Peter Gabe (Fond 137)

    Contains manuscripts, notebooks, letters and newspaper clippings relating to the Jewish question, Jewish language, resettlement of Jewish families in Bulgaria, and migration of Russian Jews to agricultural colonies in Palestine.

  20. Selected records of the Ministry of Finance, Bulgaria

    Contains correspondence and other documents relating to expenses and consequences of the establishment of anti-Jewish laws and regarding ownership of real estate and houses of Jewish origin. Incudes applications for payment of compensation for the currency confiscated by the banks, 1920-1921, letters of expropriation of shares of persons of Jewish origin 1941-1943, minutes of the Council of Ministers with attached files on the basis of Article 9 of the Law Against Speculation with real estate, owned by persons of Jewish origin, 1942, 1943, orders of the Council of Ministers, and registers o...