Sofia virtual Garden
the miraculous rescue of Bulgarian Jews
Sofia virtual Garden was created within the WeFor European project proposed by Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee to create a Forest of the Righteous of Europe on the Web.
The WeFor site collects the "virtual" Gardens which have been imagined for the various European capitals, together with the already existing Gardens, to honour the exemplary figures of moral resistance to Nazism and Communism.
Hence the Gardens' trees become one great forest able to remind especially the younger generations of the founding values of civil coexistence.
Sofia witnessed one of the rare "miracles" occurred during the Shoah.
The entire population of Bulgaria, nearly 48,000 people, was rescued from deportation to Auschwitz at the very last moment in March 1943, thanks to the highest civil and religious authorities, which stepped in following the people's mobilization against the will of the government and the king to hand the Jews to the German allies.
In Sofia Garden we remember the protagonists of such miracle.
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Enter Sofia virtual Garden in WeFor.
