Bulgaria marks March 10 the 63rd anniversary since the rescue of nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews from the Nazi concentration camps during World War Two.

To commemorate the anniversary's representatives of the Organization of Jews in Bulgaria Shalom laid wreaths at the plaque located on the eastern side of the parliament's building. The parliament observed the memory of the victims of the Holocaust with a minute of silence.

On March 10 in 1943 Bulgaria, led by the Orthodox Church and King Boris III, halted the implementation of a governmental decision dispatching the first groups of Bulgarian Jews to fascist death camps.

Tsar Boris III and his country made extraordinary effort and sacrifices to save its entire population of Jews.

Aware of the price he might pay for his risks, Boris faced the Third Reich with courage and resolve, firm in his convictions that he could not abandon his country's Jewish citizens.

The Tsar, along with members of the Orthodox Church, Jewish religious leaders, and others, ensured that not even one Bulgarian Jew fell into the clutches of the Nazi regime.

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