Seventeen representatives of the Jewish community in Bulgaria had a meeting with Pope John Paul II in the building of the Apostolic Nunciature in the afternoon of May 24. His Holiness asked whether many Jews were killed during World War II in Bulgaria. The Jewish representatives told the Pope that no Bulgarian Jews were killed since the Bulgarian people saved them. “We are very happy that the Pope came to this country and especially that His Holiness has never believed that Bulgaria had connection with the attempt to assassinate him in 1981,” Maxim Behar, M3 Communications Group, Inc. CEO who attended the meeting said. Asked whether the Pope denied Bulgaria’s involvement in the plot very late, Behar said that it was the right time for His Holiness to do it exactly in Bulgaria. The artists Greddy Assa and Reni Bahneva who attended the meeting presented the Pope with their works of art.