Not a portrait

Aleksandar Belev

1900–1944

Where you meet Aleksandar Belev

Cut-out detail; background removed. A black Adler typewriter with round keys in a museum display. — Biser Todorov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

On 22 February 1943 Bulgarian official Aleksandar Belev and German representative Theodor Dannecker agreed to deport 20,000 Jews.

Scene 2 · Bulgaria and the deportations of 1943

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Not a portrait · Unknown photographer · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Theodor Dannecker
Photographic portrait · Unknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Dimitar Peshev
Photographic portrait · Unknown · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Dimitar Blagoev
Photographic portrait · User:BASA Спасимир · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Aleksandar Stamboliyski
Photograph · Unknown photographer · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Petar Gabrovski
Photograph · Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
Bogdan Filov

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Theodor Danneckersigned an agreement with

20th century

Bulgaria and the deportations of 1943

Sources

Liza Schwartz / Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Gratitude Plaque to Patriarch Kiril and Exarch Stefan on the Gates of Bachkovo Monastery in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2009 The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art and Material Culture, object 58073 · 2025
Lea Cohen File:DPeshev Letter.jpg Wikimedia Commons
Спасимир File:NHMB-Order Stara planina-Dimitar Peshev 01.JPG Wikimedia Commons

All sources (13)

Biser Todorov File:Typewriter "Adler".jpg Wikimedia Commons
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The Nazi Party Holocaust Encyclopedia
Николай Поппетров Една винаги актуална история. Спомените на Димитър Пешев и тяхното значение (Вместо предговор) PDF Димитър Пешев, Спомени. София: БИ 93. ISBN 978-619-7496-66-6 · 2020 · 15
Nadège Ragaru Contrasting Destinies: The Plight of Bulgarian Jews and the Jews in Bulgarian-occupied Greek and Yugoslav Territories during World War Two Mass Violence & Résistance / Sciences Po · 2017
Silent Heroes Memorial Center / German Resistance Memorial Center Foundation Dimitar Peshev Silent Heroes: Biographies
Muzeum Treblinka Upamiętnienie Muzeum Treblinka
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Bulgaria Holocaust Encyclopedia
Yad Vashem Two Bulgarian Clergymen Named as Righteous Among the Nations for Saving Jews during the Holocaust Yad Vashem press releases · 2001
Владимир Станев; Даниела Ташева Александър Белев и Комисарството по еврейските въпроси PDF Годишник на Софийския университет, Исторически факултет, vol. 107
Yad Vashem Alexander Belev Monastir: The Story of a Jewish Sephardic Community in Macedonia

Images

Not a portrait

Unknown photographer · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Not a portrait: Families beside a freight wagon. Illustration to the passage mentioning Aleksandar Belev.

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Full attribution

Unknown photographer / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. Credited sources: Republika; Holocaust Fund of the Jews from Macedonia. Processed image. Archive photograph

Where you meet Aleksandar Belev

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Peshev’s letter and the deportations

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