Tag: holocaust
Macedonia 12.03.23 | 10:10

Processions to honor the victims on the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust

A procession to honor the Jewish community of Macedonia, destroyed in the Holocaust, is taking place in downtown Skopje today. The Procession of the Living covers the area of the Museum of the City of Skopje and ends at the Monopol tobacco factory, where the Jewish population of Skopje was forced to...
Balkans 11.03.23 | 16:11

Jews ask Bulgaria not to distort history, Iotova announced a museum dedicated to their “rescue”

Today, Macedonia marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the persecution of the Macedonian Jews in the Treblinka camp. On this very day, announcements are coming from Bulgaria that it also wants to be part of the history of the persecution of the Jews, but made up in its own way. In particular,...
Macedonia 11.03.22 | 16:10

The past must instruct us in the future, Mickoski says on the day of Holocaust remembrance

History teaches us that we must fight for peace, understanding and friendship, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski during the ceremony to mark the Holocaust in Macedonia. Over 7,000 Jews from Macedonia were deported in March 1943 to the Nazi Treblinka death camp – and none returned. The...
Macedonia 14.10.21 | 11:04

Pendarovski wants to introduce mandatory visits to the Holocaust Museum in Skopje for all pupils

During a Holocaust remembrance conference in Sweden, President Stevo Pendarovski proposed that visiting the Holocaust Museum in Skopje is made mandatory for all elementary and high school students. We are also prepared to increase the number of classes that cover anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Pendarovski...
Macedonia 11.03.21 | 15:19

78th anniversary of the Holocaust of the Macedonian Jews

Macedonia marks the 78th anniversary of the deportation of the Macedonian Jews today. The deportation from the territories occupied by Bulgaria in Macedonia and in Greece began on March 11th 1943, on orders from Germany, and over 7,000 Jews were deported from Macedonia – mainly from Skopje, Bitola...
Macedonia 28.01.21 | 10:31

Borisov pays his respect to the deported Jews of Macedonia and Thrace

In his Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov paid his respect to the Jews deported from Macedonia and Thrace. The deportations were carried out by the Bulgarian army, on request from Germany, and the outcry that followed prompted the Bulgarian authorities to refuse...
Macedonia 27.01.21 | 14:36

Zaev careful not to mention Bulgaria in his Holocaust Remembrance Day message

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev issued a very carefully worded statement on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, careful not to make any mention of Bulgaria, under whose command the deportation of the Macedonian Jews was carried out in 1943. Macedonia is tied in a deep historic dispute with Bulgaria...
Macedonia 30.12.20 | 15:15

“Does this look like mere administration to you?”, Mizrahi asks Zaev while showing him pictures of family members killed in the Holocaust

A dramatic moment occurred in the Parliament today, as Prime Minister Zaev and his ministers came to answer questions from representatives. Rasela Mizrahi from VMRO-DPMNE, the first Jewish member of a Macedonian Government who was ousted by Zaev after a vile anti-Semitic campaign by SDSM activists, blasted...
Macedonia 01.12.20 | 09:34

The Jewish community will not allow Holocaust denial, Mizrahi tells Zaev

VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Rasela Mizrahi, who was the first Jewish member of Government, said that the Jewish community is appalled by Zoran Zaev’s new position on Bulgaria – to accept revision of history, including that of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Rewriting history to...
Macedonia 28.11.20 | 11:09

The historic dispute with Bulgaria inevitably draws closer to the issue of the Holocaust

The growing dispute between Macedonia and Bulgaria is inevitably drawing closer to probably the most difficult historic issue – the deportation of the Jewish population of Macedonia during the Second World War. Macedonia’s over 7,000 strong Jewish population, mainly concentrated in Skopje,...
Macedonia 11.03.19 | 23:19

Zaev makes a horrific Holocaust gaffe, tries to cover it up, is eventually forced to apologize

Zoran Zaev made a horrific gaffe during the Holocaust memorial event in Skopje, when, in part of his speech, he called the Holocaust “a Jewish tradition”. The Prime Minister then made things worse when by abusing the Government public relations service, which distributed a doctored video,...

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