Honours and Memorials
The United States Congress proclaimed King Boris III savior of fifty thousand Bulgarian Jews on 12 May 1994.
King Boris III was posthumously awarded the Jewish National Fund's Medal of the Legion of Honor, the first non-Jew to receive one of the Jewish community's highest honors.
The Jewish National Fund dedicated to Bulgaria a forest in Israel, a garden named for King Boris, and a Bulgarian square in Jerusalem.
The Anti-Defamation League and Chabad have also honored King Boris III for refusing to sacrifice his Jewish subjects to the Nazi juggernaut.
Tsar Boris III Boulevard is one of the main boulevards in Sofia and Plovdiv.
Borisova Gradina is the largest park in Sofia.
A huge picture of Tsar Boris hangs in the Alexandrov compound in Atlantic City, NJ
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