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Avraham Moric Romano (1895-1943), rabbi, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina (then part of Austria-Hungary). He served as rabbi in Bjelina on the Dalmatian coast from 1919 to 1923, and then in Dubrovnik, until 1931, when he accepted the position of chief rabbi of the Jewish community of Bitola in Yugoslav Macedonia serving as this community’s last rabbi. While a convinced Zionist and activist in favor of Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel, he also was active in ensuring a financial support for the impoverished Jews of Bitola from other Jewish communities in Yugoslavia. Romano was deported to the Nazi death camp at Treblinka in March 1943 and killed there along with most of the Jews of Bitola.

Bulgaria

България - Republic of Bulgaria

A country in south eastern Europe, in the Balkan peninsula, and member of the European Union (EU)

21st Century

Estimated Jewish population in 2018: 2,000 out of 7,100,000 (0.02%).  Main umbrella organization of the Jewish communities:

Организация на евреите в България "Шалом"
Organization of Jews in Bulgaria-Shalom
Phone: 359 2 40 06 301
Fax: 359 2 988 46 937
E-mail: info@shalom.bg
Website: http://www.shalom.bg/