Skopje, 11 March 2026 (MIA) - The Jewish Community in the Republic of Macedonia and the Holocaust Fund of the Jews of Macedonia are observing the 83rd anniversary of the deportation of 7,144 Macedonian Jews to the Treblinka death camp.

On this occasion, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski will lay flowers at the memorial at the former Monopol building in Skopje and will deliver an address at the event organized to mark the anniversary.

A parliamentary delegation including Ljupcho Prendzov, Dafina Stojanoska and Daniela Nikolova will also lay flowers at the memorial at the former Monopol as well as at the monument of the deported Jews and the monument of WWII fallen fighters at the Jewish cemetery and the Butel cemetery.

President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova attended Tuesday an event commemorating the Holocaust of the Macedonian Jews at the Treblinka memorial in Poland.

The President paid her respects to the victims and laid a wreath at the monument dedicated to the 7.144 Macedonian Jews deported by the fascist occupiers to the Treblinka death camp in 1943.

A parliamentary delegation led by the Parliament’s Vice Speaker Vesna Bendevska Tuesday laid flowers at the monument ot the victims of the Holocaust “Menorah Stone” and at the monument to Estreja Ovadija-Mara in Bitola.

On the night of March 10–11, 1943, Jews from Bitola, Shtip and Skopje were gathered at the Monopol building in Skopje and deported in three transports to the Treblinka camp in occupied Poland. The deportations began on March 22, 1943, and by March 29 all Macedonian Jews had been sent to Treblinka, from where none returned.

In just 14 months, from August 1942 to September 1943, 925,000 people were killed in Treblinka, including the 7,144 Macedonian Jews.

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