dimitar peshev museum

We heard about the great and heroic saving of the Bulgarian Jews in the Holocaust. This museum tells in short of this and about the people that led it . It is a small museum. small enough so children don't get bored. and it is all written clearly and well put out.

The yard is very well decorated with benches and local flora. The first floor of the house contained very few but interesting artifacts such as the book which brought Peshev into the light of the world (only written in Bulgarian, Italian, and German) as well as plenty of pictures accompanied with captions in both Bulgarian and English. The second floor contained a new exhibit about Jewish influence in Bulgarian Music. The lady at the house was very warm and informative. Don't forget to check out the small room that contains all of the furniture from Peshev's office in Parliament!

I spent more than an hour reading about the life of Peshev and looking up through excerpts from old documents. What great deeds ordinary people can do when they have the will! Dimitar Peshev and his friends who also took part in the prevention of deportation of the Bulgarian Jews are a huge credit to Kyustendil and Bulgaria. If you like to know more about this chapter of our history, then this museum is the best place. I don't rememer the working time, but we went on a Sunday afternoon.

iDimitar Peshev's name is forever linked with the odissea of saving the bulgarian jews during WW2. He was then deputee chairman of the bulgarian parlaiment and managed to arrange that nobody touched the jews of Bulgaria and they were saved from the destiny of the other European Jews. He was dismissed from the parliament following his deed and was condemned aso by the communists ruling Bulgaria after that. Grateful jews sent him some money so that he survived but miserably.He was honored by Israel as righteous of the justs and grateful Bugarian Jews gathered the means to built this museum in Kustebndil, where was his home.In the yard of the museum, there is a remembrance plaque in memory of Itshak Rabin.