Five souvenir booklets with hundreds of class photos of students from Sofia General School - photographs of Jewish ...

Five souvenir booklets with hundreds of class photos of students from Sofia General School - photographs of Jewish students. Sofia (Bulgaria) 1933-1940

COLLEGE S.S CYRILLE et METHODE DOLNI LOZENETZ - SOFIA Five souvenir pamphlets printed on unique chromo paper, with dozens of 'class pictures' featuring hundreds of Low grades students from Sofia-Bulgaria General School. Dozens photographs of Jewish students. rare.

Next to the students' photographs is a list of their general grades (in the form of a general score) in the various subjects. Many Jewish first names and surnames appear: Yaakov, Levi, Cohen, Rosenfeld, Gavrielov, Horowitz, Shimonov, Zion, Azriel, Minkoff, Tefilinsky and others.

In the 1930s in which the pamphlets were published, Bulgaria began to approach Nazi Germany and at the same time allowed the government to establish anti-Semitic organizations and even resorted to institutional anti-Semitism. Before us is one of the most recent testimonies to the integration of the Jews into the Bulgarian population before their deportation in September 1939, after the expulsion of the deportation of foreign nationals, and later in May 1943, the deportation of 20,000 Sofia Jews to the field towns.

Dozens of photo pages in each booklet. At the title pages of three booklets a photograph of the school building. Each booklet is printed in different color ink: black, blue, purple, brown, light blue. Few stains on covers, good condition.