Pictures

Jewish and Bulgarian women do laundry at a stream ca 1910.
Photo courtesy of The Comforty Collection.

 

My Grandpa Rachamim Conforty as soldier sitting on the back (L) of a camel for a group picture, 1917.
Photo courtesy of The Comforty Collection.

 

Braniks, in uniforms, march towards the swearing ceremony with swastika.
Image courtesy of The Comforty Collection.

 

Bulgarian Braniks, in uniforms, salute in Nazi style.
Image courtesy of The Comforty Collection.

 

Rachel, Mimi , Aron and Rachamim Conforty in 1943. Their son, Bitush, is in a labor camp and missing from the picture.Photo courtesy of the Comforty Collection.

 

Jewish forced laborers walk to work in 1942. In the background,  we can see the tents of the labor camp. Every working day starts with a march from camp to the work site which was sometimes breathtaking but so was the hard work. Photo Courtesy of the Comforty Collection.

 

The tobacco warehouse yard, in Dupnitsa.  First, all the people left by foot to the train station. Lastly, this truck leaves loaded with a baby who was born in the warehouse, his  family, and old people who had difficulties to walk to the Dupnitsa train station. Image courtesy of The Comforty Collection

 

Jews who were held at Balkan Tabak are walking to the Dupnitsa train station, accompanied by armed military. Image Courtesy Comforty Collection.

Ika, (L) Vicky, and their father, Jacques, in the yard of the house where they were living in the Ghetto in Pleven Between May 1943 and September 1944. Ika’s Jewish star is visible.
Photo Courtesy Comforty Collection.

 

Jacky Comforty interviewed Ikonom Boris Kharalampiev in Pazardjik in summer 1990 who helped stop the deportations of the Jews of his hometown. Photo courtesy of The Comforty Collection.

“Everyone is entitled to his own faith. No one should violate the intimate, spiritual life of another. That’s how I think now, that’s how I have thought in the past, and if I live any longer, that’s how I’ll think then.” – Ikomom Boris Kharalampiev