GRATITUDE MEMORIAL, DUPNITSA

In 1943 the trains carrying Jewish deportees from Aegean Thrace stopped at the Dupnitsa railway station. Over 1,400 Jews from Komotini, Xanthi and Alexandropouli, in Greece, were incarcerated at a tobacco warehouse called The Cartel, from 7 to 9 March. Five died, but 18 were rescued following the intervention of Mois Hadzhi Davidov from the local Jewish community and Dimitar Ikonomov, an MP. Ikonomov was later sentenced to death by the People's Court. The tobacco warehouse, located at 64 Prince Boris Street, has been demolished. 

In 2018, a commemorative plaque was placed at the station to express "gratitude to the citizens of Dupnitsa for protecting their Jews from deportation and for alleviating the suffering of the 4,000 who passed through town on their way to the death camps."