423 Yad Vashem Archives, No. 03/1707 (in Hebrew). Mr.Moshonov was a goldsmith
who supplied the King's palace with jewelry and had free access to the
palace.
Also see: Ely Barouch, Iz Istoriata na Bulgarskoto Evrejstvo ("From the
History of Bulgarian Jewry", Tel Aviv, 1960; in Bulgarian), p. 146:
IUGo, 'the Metropolitan began, 'and tell your people that the King
solemnly promised before the Prime Minister and before me, that the Jews
of Bulgaria will not be expelled from the country. Go and transmit to
them this information; reassure them and let they believe in the good
principle that the Lord never forgets his children.
Go in peace.'It was with those words that the Metropolitan Stephan received
the delegation of Rabbi Daniel Ben Zion, Rabbi Asher Hananel and Menachem
Moshonov, on May 24, 1943, when the Jews of Sofia were gathered together
in the synagogue Yutch-Bunar in order to beseech mercy and salvation from
God, as it had become known to them that Bulgarian Jewry would also be
deported to be murdered in Poland. Cf. Arditi, op. cit., pp. 216-217.
424 Cf. p. 186 in this chapter.
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425 Literally: "bake your head"
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426 Solomon Samuel Mashiach in his article "Who saved us?", published in the newspaper "Narodno Delo (Sofia, No. 467, July 4, 1958; in Bulgarian). Quoted by Barouch, op. cit., pp. 147-149.
427 Arditi, op. cit., p. 374. Cf. Matthew 7, 2.
428 Leviev, op. cit., p. 88.
Cf. Arditi, op. cit., p. 289: "When the Metropolitan Kyril was convinced
that the local authorities and the representatives of the Government were
not inclined to help the Jews, he sent a telegram to the King, in which
he declared that he would cease to be the King's loyal subject and that
he would act as seemed right to him and according to the dictates of
his conscience as a religious man, if the instructions for expulsion
were not cancelled."
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429 Leviev, op. cit., pp. 88-89.