“Anti-Semitism is a threat to one degree or another to all societies, as well as an indicator of wider societal problems. As with all forms of discrimination, anti-Semitism must be countered, including through education in order to build a sense of solidarity and respect for diversity and the freedom of people to live together and […]
“In order to understand what happened to the Bulgarian Jews during the Second World War, we need to understand how this community lived in our country. We must talk about those people who remained here after the Liberation. It’s a well-integrated community. They chose to stay in the new, small Bulgarian principality, which is taking […]
“We must learn to preserve memory, and this is the great challenge we face. People who live in Israel carry the history of their families, but there are also those who keep the tragedy deep within themselves and do not speak openly about it. Many of the Bulgarian Jews spoke Hebrew when they arrived in […]
“With this conference, you are doing the most valuable, but also the most meaningful thing. You are building, brick by brick, the bridge from the past to the future that we so desperately need today. If it is not there, if it is not stable enough, we cannot build our tomorrow. Because without memory there […]
