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Rachamim Comforty and his“two wives.” 

His first wife was Rosa (left).  Her sister, Rachelle (right), became his second wife when Rosa died. Dupnitza, Bulgaria; 1920

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The Comfortys, minus one.

Jacky Comforty’s paternal grandfather and his family just before they were to be deported to concentration camps: Rachelle, Mimi, Aaron, and Rachamim Comforty. At home in Plovidv, Bulgaria.

 Not in picture: Bitush, Jacky’s father, who was interned in a forced labor camp. 

Note Jewish star on Rachamim. Plovdiv, March, 1943.

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Mother and child:

Thracian Jews deported through Bulgaria in March, 1943. They and all those deported with them were murdered shortly after this picture was taken.

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Sisters: 

Jacky Comforty’s  mother, Ika, and her sister, Vicki. The sun is reflecting off Ika’s Jewish star.

Photo taken after they and other Sofia Jews were exiled to the provinces. Pleven, Bulgaria; 1943

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Jewish wedding party, circa early 1920’s. 

Jacky Comforty’s grandfather, Rachamim Comforty, is the third on the right. Rachelle Beracha Comforty is seated at the far end.

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Jewish laborers in a Bulgarian forced labor camp near Greek border. 1942. 

Jacky Comforty’s father is first on the right.

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Bishop Boris Kharalampiev,

Bishop of Pazardjik, Bulgaria, who helped stop the deportations of Jews from his city in 1943.

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The Optimists in concert, Sofia, 1940.

Niko Nissimov, first from Right.

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Rubin Dimitrov,  Baker, Bulgaria

 Mr. Dimitrov hid Jews in the ovens of his bakery during a police raid in Sofia, in May 24 1943,

Mr. Dimitrov is one of 15 Bulgarians recognized by Yad Vashem as "Righteous Among the Nations."