Anna Serchadjieva was married to the theater director Stefan Serchadjiev. They had two young children. The Serchadjievs had been evacuated to Skopje with the Bulgarian People’s Theater at the start of 1943 and lived in a central location.
When the Jews were to be transported out of Skopje in March 1943, Serchadjieva tried to warn as many of them as possible. The Serchadjievs hid the Jewish Kario family in their apartment. This was dangerous because German officers lived in the building. The Karios left their hiding place every morning before the Serchadjievs’ maid came to work. They returned shortly after her arrival, pretending to be actors coming to the Serchadjievs’ apartment for rehearsals every day. After several days, the Karios left for the Albanian border with the Popstefanovs. Anna Serchadjieva gave them provisions to take along. They managed to escape.
After liberation, Anna Serchadjieva and her husband moved to Sofia, where they met the Karios again. The Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem honored Anna Serchadjieva as Righteous Among the Nations in 1983.