Polina Angelova is the founder, curator, and creative director of Hidden Identity Projects. Hidden Identity Projects aims to raise awareness of an extraordinary fact kept secret until 1989 and tell a story that explores the parts of our culture that were hidden. Almost 48,000 Jews were saved from being deported to the death camps of the Holocaust. Bulgarian men and women laid down on the railroad tracks risking their own lives. The deportations from Bulgaria never took place. Bulgaria was the only country in Europe whose Jewish population remained the same throughout the Holocaust. The exceptional courage and goodness that emerged in the midst of unspeakable tragedy and destruction are still known as ‘the miracle of the Jewish people’. Hidden Identity Projects consists of the 12 STARS Visual History Series, 12 touring exhibitions inspired by the unique story of the Saving of the Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust, and the ‘Maps to Heaven’ Highly Conceptual Fine Art Photography Series with Lady Zahava MBE and the second generation perspective of her daughter Hephzibah Rudofsky.
