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The Holocaust in North Macedonia
The Holocaust saw the mass murder of Macedonian Jews in World War II as a result of deportation organized by the governments of Kingdom of Bulgaria and Nazi Germany, with the aim of systematically eliminating the Jewish population from the so-called "newly liberated territories" by the Bulgarian authorities. The deportation of Jews from Macedonia was part of the deportation of Jews from all the territories occupied by Bulgaria (Vardar Macedonia and Pomoravie (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Belomorie (Kingdom of Greece)).[1] All Jews from Macedonia were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp in occupied-Poland, where they were suffocated in gas chambers. Not a single witness survived to recount the horrors of the destruction of the Jewish population of Macedonia. Documents are the only witnesses to prove the fate of the Jews in Macedonia.[2][3]
Over 7,000 Jews were deported from Vardar Macedonia, while including those from Aegean Macedonia and Thrace, around 11,400.[2][4][5] According to data from October 1945, only 419 people remained on the territory of present-day Macedonia, whose community today numbers around 200.[6][7]
- ^ Жамила Колономос, Вера Весковиќ-Вангели, Евреите во Македонија во Втората светска војна (1941-1945), Зборник на документи, том 1, и том 2, Скопје, 1986.
- ^ a b Vera Rich, Bulgaria: Shadows of the holocaust, The Lancet, Vol. 337, Issue 8750, Page 1152, 11 May 1991.
- ^ Shlomo Alboher, The Jews of Monastir Macedonia - The Life and Times of the Departed Jewish Community of Bitola [1]
- ^ Bulgaria, Holocaust Encyclopedia http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005355
- ^ Битолските народноослободителни партизански одреди, СЗБ-НОВ, Битола, 1982.
- ^ Brustein, W.I., King, R.D. Balkan anti-Semitism: The cases of Bulgaria and Romania before the Holocaust, East European Politics and Societies Volume 18, Issue 3, June 2004, Pages 430-454
- ^ Only 200 strong, Macedonia's Jews celebrate unity and new synagogue", Ruth E Gruber, Jewish World Review [2]
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