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Mar. 11, 2003 Bulgarian parliament commemorates salvation of country's Jews By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgarians can be proud of their ancestors, who helped rescue the country's Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps, parliament said in a declaration adopted Tuesday. The declaration was passed during an extraordinary session that marked the end of a week of events memorializing the 60th anniversary of nationwide protests that helped rescue the country's Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps. The pro-fascist government in 1943 issued a deportation order that would have sent the country's Jews to the Nazi death camps....