In the year 1943 while the holocaust of Europe's Jews was reaching its peak, a unique phenomenon occurred in Bulgaria. Eminent leaders of the Bulgarian people, enlightened public figures, the heads of the church, writers, doctors, lawyers, workers, ordinary citizens, and the royal family they all stood together and succeeded to rescue all of Bulgaria's 49,000 Jews from deportation to the death camps. The great majority of Bulgaria's Jews immigrated to Israel in 1948-1950 and took an active part in the rebirth of the Jewish state.