On March 9, 2011, the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria to the State of Israel hosted a reception on the occasion of the country's National Day, the Anniversary of the conclusion of the preliminary peace treaty (March 3, 1878) which ended the 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War  eventually  leading  to  the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire.

On the same occasion the Ambassador of Bulgaria, H.E. Yuri Sterk, inaugurated at the Enav Cultural Center in Tel Aviv  an exhibition under the logo “The power of the Bulgarian civil society: the fate of the Jews in Bulgaria”. The exhibition is presented for the first time in Israel, courtesy of the Bulgarian Institute for Culture, in the context of Holocaust Remembrance, after having been already displayed  in New York and in a number of European capitals. March 9, 1943 was the day on which active civil and political actions and demonstrations started in Bulgaria in opposition to the Nazi intentions to compell the Bulgarian  government to implement the "Final Solution" plans in the territory of the country.

The exhibition’s 21 posters feature the history in the period of 1940 - 1944  presenting the anti-Jewish policy of the Third Reich, the attitude to it of different international actors and of the Bulgarian government at that time, with a special focus on how different layers of the Bulgarian society and Bulgarian people as a whole reacted to the plans for deportation to the death camps of the Jewish community in Bulgaria.

The exhibition  will stay at Enav Center until the 19^th of March and will be open to the public (no entrance fee).