Macedonian Jews mark Holocaust

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.