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The history of the Jews in North Macedonia stretches back two thousand years, beginning during Roman antiquity, when Jews first arrived in the region. [ citation needed ] Today, following the Holocaust and emigration, especially to Israel , around 200 Jews remain in North Macedonia , mostly in the capital, Skopje and a few in Štip and Bitola .
The Jewish population of Europe in 2010 was estimated to be approximately 1.4 million (0.2% of the European population), or 10% of the world's Jewish population. [6] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, [ 6 ] [ 10 ] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine. [ 10 ]
The study opened with a short depiction of the history of the Macedonian Jews up to 1941. This description was followed by a minute examination of anti-Jewish policies, the roundups and internment of the Jews at the temporary detention center in Skopje, their deportation, and the subsequent liquidation and plundering of Jewish properties.
The Jewish communities of the Balkans were some of the oldest in Europe and date back to antiquity. The oldest communities of Jews in the port cities of the Balkans date back to the 4th century B.C during the reign of Alexander the Great in what would become North Macedonia.
The history of the Jews in Monastir (present-day Bitola, North Macedonia) and its region reaches back two thousand years. The Monastir Province was an Ottoman vilayet, created in 1864, encompassing territories in present-day Albania, North Macedonia (one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991) and Greece.
View of the building. The Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia (Macedonian: Меморијален центар на холокаустот на Евреите од Македонија, Memorijalen centar na holokaustot na Evreite od Makedonija; Ladino: Sentro Memorial del Holokausto de los Djudios de la Makedonia) is a memorial to the Holocaust of the 7,148 Jews from North ...
In 1982, Matkovski published an extended version of the 1962 book, titled A History of the Jews in Macedonia, which contained an update of his 1962 book in the form of a chapter on The Deportation and Liquidation of the Jews of Macedonia. He made use of Yugoslav, as well as Bulgarian archival material available in Yugoslavia and described in ...
A History of the Jews in Macedonia; J. The Jews from Macedonia and the Holocaust; The Jews in Macedonia During the Second World War (1941–1945) M.