The Exhibition
During Minister Mladenov’s visit to the United States, the exhibition “The Power of Civil Society: the Fate of Jews in Bulgaria during the Holocaust” will open there. The exhibition is a joint project of the State Institute for Culture and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, and focuses on an episode of World War 2, which represents an act of heroism on the part of the Bulgarian nation. The exhibition was recently shown in Ireland where it aroused an extraordinary interest in the Irish public; it was donated to the Irish Holocaust educational foundation. One of the important objectives of this project is to acquaint the international community with Bulgaria’s outstanding contribution as an unparalleled example of tolerance in the course of certain very dramatic events.