Research Catalog

Title

Beyond Hitler's grasp : the heroic rescue of Bulgaria's Jews / Michael Bar Zohar.

Author

Bar-Zohar, Michael, 1938-

Publication

Holbrook, Mass. : Adams Media, ©1998.

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Details

Description

xiii, 298 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Chronicles the actions of "public and private individuals ... who independently risked their lives for the rights of others" and earned Bulgaria the distinction of being "the only Axis-aligned country not to deport its Jews." Despite the formation of a pro-Nazi government and their own version of the Nuremberg laws, "not one Bulgarian Jew ever left the country."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1942-1943
• Jews > Bulgaria > History > 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Bulgaria
• Ethnic relations
• Jews
• Juden
• Rettung
• Judenverfolgung > Bulgarien > Geschichte 1940-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Rescue > Bulgaria
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Bulgaria
• Juifs > Bulgarie
• Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) > Juifs > Sauvetage > Bulgarie
• Jews > Bulgaria > History
• World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue
• Bulgaria > Ethnic relations
• Bulgaria
• Bulgaria > Jewish history > World War, 1939-1945
• Bulgarien
• Juden > Weltkrieg II > Rettung > Bulgarien
• Juden

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-287) and index.

Contents

Alarm -- The fox -- The law for the defense of the nation -- The commissar -- An order for deportation -- The lovers -- A Thracian nightmare -- Boxcars at the station -- An order from the highest place -- Trains -- Forty-three signatures -- The bluff -- The metropolitans -- Belev's devious plan -- Despair -- The king has vanished -- Belev's revenge -- The last effort -- The mysterious death of Boris III -- A body in a ditch -- The hour of reckoning.

ISBN

• 1580620604
• 9781580620604

LCCN

98008407

OCLC

• ocm39229612
• 39229612
• SCSB-14422997

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library