Woman and child being deported from Thrace
In the period of the deportations of the Jews of Thrace, most of this region was in Bulgarian hands. On 4 March 1943, the Bulgarians imprisoned nearly all the Jews in the area of Thrace that had been annexed from Greece – some 4,000 Jews – and turned them over to the Germans. After three weeks the Germans deported these Jews to the Treblinka death camp.
For more information about the Jews of Thrace and Macedonia in the Holocaust, click here.
For more information about Bulgaria’s role in the Holocaust, click here.
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