Theodore Yantshev Case Records 1947-1958

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Theodore Yantshev Case Records 1947-1958

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Bulgarian refugee from Communism who struggled to immigrate and gain citizenship in the United States. Attorneys William Gray and Francis Newton of the Boston firm Powers and Hall represented Yantshev. Includes correspondence, photocopies and translations of Yantshev's Bulgarian birth certificate and educational records, and letters of character reference.

1 box; (0.5 linear ft.)

eng,

Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6323390

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Gray, William, Major

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Newton, Francis

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Yantshev, Theodore

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Theodore Konstantin Yantshev was born on January 17, 1926 in Sofia, Bulgaria to Konstantin Dimtshev Yantshev and Antoinette Robert Goinareva. He attended primary shcool in the city of Burgas, and in 1945-1946 attended the Bulgaria University of Technical Sciences in Varna to study electrical engineering. He was president of an anti-communist organization at the university, and through this position was an intimate of Petkov, leader of the Bulgarian Peasant Party, who was subsequentl...