Exhibition „DEPORTATION OF THE JEWS FROM MACEDONIA TO TREBLINKA 1943”
Opublikowano: 8 kwietnia 2016

On Sunday, April 3th, 2016 at 12 pm the exhibition „DEPORTATION OF THE JEWS FROM MACEDONIA TO TREBLINKA 1943” was open in the Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Treblinka (Muzeum Walki i Męczeństwa w Treblince).

The opening of the exhibition was organized by the Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia, the Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in Warsaw and the Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Treblinka.

The exhibition is dedicated to 7.144 Jews from Macedonia who were murdered in Nazi extermination camp Treblinka in then occupied Poland. Those 7.144 Jews represent 98% of the Jewish population in Macedonia at that time. This is the highest percentage in the history of the Holocaust.

In April 1941, the Third Reich and its allies conquered and divided the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The fate of the Jews living in Yugoslavia depended on the new authorities in every individual part. At that time, the territory of today’s Republic of Macedonia was also part of the Kingdom. On April 18, 1941, the territory of Vardar Macedonia was annexed to the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Immediately followed the implementation of the laws and regulations that governed Jewish economic and political restrictions, while the fatal day that marked the dark side of the history of the Jews in Macedonia, was March 11, 1943. By previously systematic records, Jews were evicted from their houses and sent to the transit camp Monopol (Tobacco factory) in Skopje. From there they were deported to the death camp Treblinka in three different convoys, 22 March, 25 March and 29 March, where final stage of the so-called final solution of the Jewish question was implemented. Six days were needed the trains to reach Treblinka from Skopje.

No one returned from Treblinka.

Source: The Macedonian Embassy in Warsaw, warsaw@mfa.gov.mk

 

 

 

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