New Perspectives Regarding Bulgaria and the Holocaust
After 80 Years
International Interdisciplinary Conference
Jacky Comforty is the main organizer and programer of the Conference in collaboration with Dr. Moshe Mossek and Prof. Dan Michman. The Learning Project co sponsors the econference. Our donations will help us make the content of the conference accessible to audience around th eworld.
Organized by the Bulgarian Jewish Heritage Center in collaboration with Yad Vashem, The Dahan Center at Bar Ilan University,Tel Aviv Cinematheque, The Salvador Foundation, The Union of Bulgarian Jews, The Israel-Bulgaria friendship association, The Herzelina Foundation, and The Learning Project.
May 22-24, 2023
An international interdisciplinary conference on research, documentation, decoding, reconstruction and preservation of the historical records of the Holocaust in Bulgaria and its memory. The conference invited experts from around the world who have researched various aspects of the Holocaust in Bulgaria. All our invitees confirmed their wish to participate. The lectures will be translated, filmed, transcribed and made available to the public through the website of the Jewish Heritage House of Bulgaria, in Jaffa. https://bjmoreshet.org/
All participants alphabetically: (See also Appendix 1: Biographies of foreign lecturers)
Assoc. Prof. Roumen Avramov, economist and historian, Member of the Academic Advisory
Council, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS), Bulgaria.
Professor Michael Berenbaum, Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University. Berenbaum played a leading role in the creation of the USHMM and the content of its permanent exhibition.
Martha Aladjem Bloomfield, Author, independent oral historian, researcher and artist, USA
Dr. Angel Chorapchiev, Historian and Archivists, Yad Vashem, Israel.
Dr. Leah Cohen, Researcher, novelist and diplomat, Switzerland.
Jacky Comforty, Researcher of the Holocaust in Bulgaria, documentary filmmaker, author, the Bulgarian Jewish Heritage House Association, Jaffa, & The Learning Project, USA.
Professor Edward McGlynn Gaffney Jr., Law professor, Producer-Director-Writer of documentary film relating to the Shoah in Bulgaria “Empty Boxcars,” USA.
Souzana Hazan, Curator in the Jewish Museum in Augsbourg, Editor of vol 13 devoted to Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Romania of “The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945”.
Moti Kanari, Historian, content editor, and senior manager, the Bulgarian Jewish Heritage House Association, Jaffa, Israel.
Dr. Zdravka Krasteva, Lawyer, law lecturer, Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Architect Yitzhak Lipovetsky-Lir, Chairman, the Association for Friendship and Brotherhood Israel-Bulgaria and the project manager of the monument of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jewry.
Professor Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research and Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair in Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem; and Emeritus Prof., Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Dr. Moshe Mossek, Retired director of the Israeli State Archives, author and researcher of Bulgarian Jewry, Salvador Association for the Heritage of Bulgarian Jews
Prof. Dr. Nadège Ragaru, an historian, is full Research Professor at Sciences Po Paris (France).
Dr. Vasilis Ritzaleos, Laboratory Teaching Staff, Department of Languages, Literature and Culture of the Black Sea Countries, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.
Dr. Steven Sage, Holocaust researcher, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. and the Claims Conference, USA.
Adv. Rena Shashua Hasson, Honorary President of the World Federation of UN Associations, the Association for Friendship and Brotherhood Israel-Bulgaria, Israel.
Dr. Shlomo Shealtiel, Historian and educator, formerly, academic adviser to Yad Yaari, the Bulgarian Jewish Heritage House Association, Jaffa, Israel.
Dr. Rani Jaeger, Hartman Institute and the Bulgarian Jewish Heritage House Association, Jaffa, Israel.