However from what I remember, they did deport the Jews from the areas they occupied in north-eastern Greece

If it's meant to honour one man and what one person can do, why is there any dispute? It's not Bulgaria Plaza, is it?

yes, do honor this man. BUT NOT IN FRONT OF THE BULGARIAN EMBASSY......SOMEWHERE ELSE. if this man is honored in front of the bulgarian embassy, it is like honoring bulgaria at the time of the holocaust. bulgaria was never innocent. this man was the hero, not the bulgarian government which deported all its jews from macedonia right into the gas and fire hell of auschwitz where all, save but two people, perished in the ovens and death pits. honoring this man IN FRONT OF THE BULGARIAN EMBASSY IS DISGUSTING AND THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM ADMINISTRATION IS 100% RIGHT IN ITS OBJECTIONS. HONOR THE MAN AWAY FROM THE EMBASSY.

This isn't the only instance of refusing to honor honorable men (and women) who saved Jewish lives during WWII. The Polish government just built a museum of Jewish history in Warsaw. It had planned to locate nearby a memorial to the more than 6,000 Christian Poles named Righteous Among Nations by Israel for their work saving Jews. (More Poles have this title than people of any other nation.) Jewish interests objected in a big outcry -- just as in this case. An attempt to tar one individual with some kind of collective guilt is the essence of mean-spirited slander. It's appalling. What would they say, those individual Jews who survived because of the acts of bravery on the part of gentiles. I think it would be at the very least "thank you." But today, even the saviors are vilifed. That says something about the soul and psyche of the Jewish community that is hard to understand and truly distasteful.

it is the location, location!!!! that the holocaust museum is objecting to. if you honor this man with this street RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BULGARIAN EMBASSY, WHICH DEPORTED JEWS TO AUSCWITZ, YOU END UP HONORING BULGARIA AS WELL BY THE LOCATION ASSOCIATION.

they deported all the jews from MACEDONIA, which the bulgarian government owned at that time. all were deported to auschwitz, where they all perished save for 2 people.

read the article, stupid. the holocaust museum is not against honoring this righteous man. it is against honoring him in front of the bulgarian embassy, a country that was complicit in sending all its macedonian jews to the gas chambers during the nazi reign. only a moron such as yourself can't comprehend this.

you are entitled to your idiotic opinions, but not to the facts, you are ignorant.

I agree with you 100%. The jews are just being unjustifiably prescious. Put the statue in front of the embassy and stuff the jews!

We are no against honouring the very "few" amongst millions who saved Jews at their own risk during the Holoucast. We are against using the "few" to absolve the millions who either participated will glee, or turned their backs and did nothing. I dont expect you to even understand my post. You are trying to water the evil dead down every day and even denying it happened. ALL THE EVIDENCE IS THERE - GO TO YAD VASHEM FOR ONE WEEK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is just petty. Nobody is obligated to endanger one's own life to save another. The armchair heroes are a dime a dozen. This Bulgarian saved some folks who happened to be Jews. Americans want to honor him. Let them. Do not look for hidden agendas.

you, sir, would have been the first nazi, with attitudes such as yours, to "stuff the jews into the gas chambers and ovens". guess what, this is an internal jewish matter and it is up to us to decide yes or no. stay out of it. this is our history and doesn't concern people with your kind of ideas. what you do with your christian saints is non of our jewish business, so stop putting in your christian two cents into jewish matters that do not concern you.

This man has ALREADY been honored by Yad Vashem as Rightous Gentile. The problem is in whitewashing Bulgaria's wartime record. Reread the article!!!!

anti-Semites. Don't feed them, just ignore them. They hate us whatever we do, they will never like us, even respect us. You will never succeed to educate them, it's too late. They just wait that you give them the opportunity to spit their venom. Ignore them, they don't deserve your care.

It depends on what the plaque on the statue says. If it is clearly honouring the man himself in spite of what was happening in areas occupied by Bulgaria, it seems reasonable. He was a govt official in Bulgaria, not a private citizen, and fifty members of parliament supported the order to stop any deportations from Bulgaria, thus saving all Jews inside Bulgaria.. According to Sir Martin Gilbert [The Righteous: Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust], Peshev was far from alone in protesting and getting the order against Bulgarian Jews resecinded; the Bulgarian Church as well as parliament played a role. The German ambassador to Sofia reported to Berlin that the Bulgarian 'does not see in the Jews any flaws justifying taking special measures against them.'

You are wrong. #9 has a saying on what's going on in HIS country. you don't!