Exarch Stefan I, Bulgarian prelate, Righteous Among the Nations, Autograph, 1939 in large archive of a Jewish Bulgarian family.

Exarch Stefan I, Bulgarian prelate, Righteous Among the Nations, Autograph, 1939 in large archive of a Jewish Bulgarian family.
1. Orig. authograph of Exarch Stefan I on Document on the conversion of a Jewish woman Matilda Avramova Dzherasieva to Orthodoxy, issued in 1939 and confirmed by the highest clergies. Signed, tax stamps and cachets
Matilda Avramova Dzherasieva converted to Orthodoxy because of due to persecution and danger to the life of the Jews
Certificates, documents and other papers and duplicates of Matilda (Mazal, Miriam) Avramova Dzherasieva, ca. 60 items
In Bulgaria, German and Hebrew.
Birth certificates and other certificates, her autobiography in German, letters in German on Jewish life in Wien.
She was born in Bulgaria in Jewish family Benvenisti, studied medicine in Vienna, worked as a doctor in Vienna, in 1939 fled with a false passport to Bulgaria, worked as a military doctor in Bulgaria, in 1949 emigrated to Israel.
Exarch Stefan I was a Bulgarian prelate. He was elected Metropolitan of Sofia in 1922 and, from 1945, also served as Exarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. He actively contributed to the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews in World War II.[1][2] He was awarded Order of the White Eagle and other decorations.
At its session held on November 19, 2001, the Israeli Memorial Institute "Yad Vashem" awarded him a certificate of honor, medal and the title "Righteous Among the World" for his contribution to the salvation of Bulgarian Jews in 1943 "His name will be inscribed on the Wall of Honor on The Alley of the Righteous "in Jerusalem, says the letter issued on March 12, 2002.
Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם , ḥasidei ummot ha`olam "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis for altruistic reasons. The term originates with the concept of "righteous gentiles", a term used in rabbinic Judaism to refer to non-Jews, called ger toshav, who abide by the Seven Laws of Noah.