Bulgaria marked its Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, emphasizing the rescue of the country's Jews. In 1943 the Nazi plan to deport the 50,000 Bulgarian Jews to death camps was abandoned thanks to mass civil protests in the country, an active stance by 43 Bulgarian legislators against the intended genocide, and then-Czar Boris III's resistance to Hitler's demands.

The rescue of the Jews is all the more remarkable considering that Bulgaria was formally an ally of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Bulgarian Holocaust Remembrance Day is traditionally marked by a number of official public events across the country.