TTS Introduces New Cooperation with Bulgarian-American Fulbright Commission
Thanks To Scandinavia Introduces New Cooperation with Bulgarian-American Fulbright Commission, Welcomes Scandinavian and Bulgarian Students to the United States
NEW YORK, September 2007… This year, Thanks To Scandinavia awarded a full $30,000 to Bulgarian scholar and LLM candidate at Columbia University, Nikolay Yanev. This represents a new level of cooperation with Bulgaria in recognizing the rescue of Jews in the country during World War II.
Mr. Yanev was nominated by the Bulgarian-American Fulbright Commission with input from the Bulgarian Jewish Community, and the award was given in cooperation with the Fulbright Commission.
In addition, twenty-four scholarships were awarded to top Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish students at sixteen different universities for a total amount of $653,600.
Thanks To Scandinavia is a scholarship fund founded in 1963 by Danish entertainer Victor Borge and New York attorney Richard Netter, which provides dozens of scholarships for students and teachers from Scandinavia and Bulgaria each year in gratitude for the heroic rescue and protection of Jews in Europe during the Second World War.
With important original research and publications as well as programming, Thanks To Scandinavia has been instrumental giving public visibility to the inspiring story of how Scandinavians protected thousands of their Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust years.
For further information about Thanks To Scandinavia call Executive Director Rebecca Neuwirth at (212) 891-1403 or visit www.ThanksToScandinavia.org.
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