page_title: Rafael Moshe Kamhi
hierarchical_section_title: Rafael Moshe Kamhi
caption_attribution_description: English: Document of Rafael Kamhi
context_page_description: Rafael Moshe Kamhi was a Sephardic Jew from Monastir in Ottoman Macedonia. Besides being Jewish, Kamhi felt also strong attachment to Macedonia as his native homeland. Kamhi was elected as liaison officer of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. He directly participated in the Miss Stone Affair and in the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising of August 1903.
  Kamhi is among the few survivors of The Holocaust from Thessaloniki after being saved by Bulgarian authorities; 90% of the population was murdered.
context_section_description: Rafael Moshe Kamhi (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Рафаел Моше Камхи, 1870–1970; military pseudonym Skander Beg) was a Sephardic Jew from Monastir (now Bitola) in Ottoman Macedonia. Besides being Jewish, Kamhi felt also strong attachment to Macedonia as his native homeland. Kamhi was elected as liaison officer of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (VMRO). He directly participated in the Miss Stone Affair and in the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising of August 1903.
  Kamhi is among the few survivors of The Holocaust from Thessaloniki after being saved by Bulgarian authorities; 90% of the population was murdered.
caption: Official notice of Kamhi issued by the Bulgarian authorities, used to help him to obtain Bulgarian citizenship during World War II.
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