PLAQUES TO KING BORIS III AND QUEEN GIOVANNA

In the 1990s these memorial stones dedicated to King Boris III and his wife were placed at the Bulgarian Forest near Jerusalem to commemorate the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews. Following protests by relatives of the Greek and Macedonian Jews who were deported from their homes to Nazi-occupied Poland, the stones were removed. Bulgaria welcomed them back – and placed them on the north side of St Sophia Church, in front of Sofia City Council, where they stand to this day.