A monument to the 300,000 Jewish martyrs who perished under the Nazis in the Lublin district of Poland, was unveiled in Lublin today in the presence of Polish government officials and leaders of the Jewish community, according to a Warsaw-dispatch received here. The monument, a bronze statute, bears the inscription in Polish and Yiddish: “I seek my near ones in every handful of ashes.”
A dispatch from Belgrade reported today that a detailed history of the Jewish community in the Province of Macedonia, from its earliest beginnings in Roman times through the period of the Second World War, when it was completely wiped out by the Nazis, has been published by the Union of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia. The author of the work is Alexander Markowski, a Jewish historian.
The Jewish settlement in Macedonia increased after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and before the outbreak of World War II totaled 8,000 persons. Jews in the province, who suffered from pogroms at the beginning of the war, perished in the Treblinka concentration camp.
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