News - Poland, Warsaw, Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria

On September 1, 2023, at the Treblinka Museum - a former Nazi concentration camp and one of the most significant places in Poland related to the memory of the Holocaust, the Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria in Warsaw, Ms. Margarita Ganeva, opened the exhibition "Jews in the Bulgarian Lands", which collected documentary evidence of the life of the Jewish community in our country from the funds of the National Library "St. St. Cyril and Methodius". 22 panels present documents testifying to the centuries-old history of the Jews in the Bulgarian lands, with special emphasis placed on the period immediately before and during World War II, the efforts of civil society and representatives of the authorities to save the Bulgarian Jews, as well as the Kyustendil Action and the contribution of Dimitar Peshev.

The exhibition will remain at the Treblinka Museum until the end of the month. October 2023, where it is expected to be viewed by tens of thousands of guests from Poland, Israel, the United States and other countries around the world visiting the museum during this period of the year.

During the opening, speeches were delivered by Ambassador Margarita Ganeva, the Director of the Treblinka Museum Dr. Edvard Kopówka, and Mr. Stanisław Stankiewicz, Chairman of the Central Council of Roma in Poland and a member of the Presidium of the International Roma Union. Greetings were delivered on behalf of Adam Strużyk, Marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship /on whose territory the museum is located/, as well as on behalf of Jan Józef Kasprzyk, Head of the Service for Veterans and Resistance Fighters and Repressed Persons. Ambassadors and members of the diplomatic corps, representatives of local authorities, representatives of academia, journalists, students and teachers from schools in the neighboring settlement of Kosovo Łackie were present.

In her speech, Ambassador Ganeva emphasized that for hundreds of years and to this day, representatives of different nationalities and religions have lived in Bulgarian lands, which contributes to the cultural wealth of Bulgarian society, living in harmony and agreement. She focused on the significance of the date of September 1, on which the exhibition opens - the beginning of World War II, one of the darkest dates in the history of Poland and Europe. She pointed out that this year marks 80 years since the rescue of Bulgarian Jews and with this documentary exhibition we present the life of the Jewish community in Bulgaria and the history of their survival during World War II.

The event program ended with the planting of a tree by Ambassador Margarita Ganeva in the so-called "Korchak Forest". The Bulgarian Embassy in Warsaw was the first foreign diplomatic mission invited to plant a tree in the "Korchak Forest", and its tree is the fiftieth in a row.