Macedonia’s Jewish community commemorated the 7,200 Macedonian Jews
killed in the Holocaust. Sunday’s commemoration in Skopje paid
tribute to those deported to Treblinka and Auschwitz by Bulgarian
fascist troops. A full 98 percent of the country’s
Jewish population was killed. The commemoration began at a tobacco factory, the site in 1943 where Jews were collected for deportation. On
Monday, a Jewish community choir included
Ladino-language songs in its performance that recalled pre-World War II Jewish life
in Macedonia.A few hundred Jews still live in the country.
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