Task Force For International Cooperation On Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research

Decision No. 105 of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria, dated 19 February 2003, declared 10 March the "Day of the Salvation of the Bulgarian Jews
and of the Victims of the Holocaust and of the Crimes against Humanity", which is also known as "Holocaust and Victims of Crimes against Humanity Remembrance
Day". The day marks the prevention of the deportation of 50,000 Bulgarian citizens of Jewish origin to the Nazi concentration camps. On 10 March 1943, the Deputy
Speaker of the Bulgarian National Assembly, Dimar Peshev, Metropolitan Bishop Stephan of Sofia, Metropolitan Bishop Cyril of Plovdiv and many other prominent
public figures - with the support of members of the general population - prevented the planned deportation.