To be used with the guide of the same title, which is shelved under call number D 804.65 O6 2003 GUIDE. Copy 2 is for loan to Distance ACD students and staff only. Copyright: Jacky Comforty and Lisa Comforty.

Director Jacky Comforty ; Written and produced by Jacky and Lisa Comforty ; Editors Jacky Comforty and Lisa Oliver ; Camera Yoav Ben David, Ivan Varimazov, Sid Lubitsch ; Music by Stuart Rosenberg

This video tells the story of how Sixty Years ago, 50,000 Bulgarian Jews survived the holocaust because Bulgarian Christians helped defend them. The Optimists: The story of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust tells the inspiring story of the many inidividuals who, each in his or her own way, took action to foil the Nazis' and their Bulgarian allies plans to send Bulgarian Jewry to the death camps. -- cover.

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