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." 

In 1929, two black marble plaques were built into the wall of Dupnitsa's synagogue to commemorate local Jews who had died in the 1912-1918 wars. In 2008 the City Council erected them next to the Youth Home, the Communist structure that occupies the plot where the former synagogue used to be. In the past they have been vandalised and sprayed with swastikas, but are now clean. 

In 2021, the local council decided to move the local history museun in the former Youth Home.

The Jewish cemetery of Dupnitsa is known to have existed since the 16th century. The last burial took place there in 1979. Its granite and sandstone tombstones are overgrown and neglected and, though parts of the site have been encroached on by housing, the cemetery still survives. There have been City Council plans to remove it to make way for a commercial building, or a park with a memorial, but so far nothing has been done. Every elderly citizen of Dupnitsa knows where the Jewish cemetery is, but some younger folk are surprised to hear that they have been walking to school... through the cemetery of what was proportionately Bulgaria's largest Jewish community.