Bulgaria's Orthodox Church has been named as a contender for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize on the 70th anniversary of the saving of a huge number of Bulgarian Jews during World War II, the Balkan Insight website reports today (March 19, 2013).
Lachezar Toshev -- deputy chairman of Bulgaria's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) -- said he had started the nomination process to gain greater worldwide recognition for the Church's role in helping to save Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps.
"The act of salvation of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust is not very well-known internationally, although there are enough documents to prove it," said Toshev, who is also an honorary associate member of PACE and one of the people entitled to make nominations for the prize.
During World War II, tens of thousands of Bulgarian Jews managed to evade deportation, and Toshev said that the nomination would "at least shed light on the issue in the course of the discussions" about the prize's eventual winner.
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