site.btaTreblinka Museum in Poland Hosts Exhibition Marking Bulgarian Jews Rescue Anniversary

An exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews during World War II and commemorating the victims of the Holocaust and crimes against humanity is on view at the former Treblinka camp in Poland in September and October. The plein-air exhibition was opened by Bulgarian Ambassador to Warsaw Margarita Ganeva on September 1.

It is entitled The Jews in Bulgarian Lands and presents documentary evidence of the life of the Jewish community from the archives of the National Library in Sofia. The show has been organized in cooperation with the Bulgarian Cultural Centre in Warsaw.

The official opening was attended by Treblinka Museum Director Edward Kopowka, ambassadors and diplomats, International Romani Union Parliament Speaker Stanislaw Stankiewicz, officials of Mazovia Province, the mayor of Malkinia Gorna, pupils and teachers from Kosow Lacki, Prof. Tomasz Nowak of the Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, and artist Marek Fiuk, who designed the Medal of the Meritorious for the Treblinka Museum.

The documentary film Through Sofia to Freedom was screened in the conference hall of the Treblinka Museum. Set in the period from 1939 to 1941, it is about three Bulgarian diplomats in Warsaw: Krum Tsokov, Trifon Puhlev and Dimitar Ikonomov, who helped rescue hundreds of Polish citizens and transfer them abroad.

Ambassador Ganeva planted a tree in the Korczak Forest, which is within the boundaries of the Treblinka Museum. She delivered a donation to the library consisting of two volumes of selected works by Janusz Korczak, translated into Bulgarian.