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On Monday, the Foreign Ministry opened an exhibition (a visual documentation on the suffering of Jews deported to Auschwitz) to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
In his address, Minister Timco Mucunski underlined the importance of remembering the Holocaust’s tragic events. In that regard, he especially paid tribute to the Macedonian Jews deported in 1943 to Treblinka.
“As a full-fledged member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, our country remains committed to fighting anti-Semitism and distorting historical facts”, the Minister underlined.
Goran Sadikario, Director of the Holocaust Museum in Skopje, said the EU couldn’t fight anti-Semitism if it allowed the distortion of the historical truth about the Holocaust to be even a smallest part of meeting criteria.
As he pointed out in that regard, Bulgaria’s holocaust of Macedonian Jews and Jews from the then-occupied parts of Greece and Serbia must not be treated as a matter on which there can be negotiations. The previous day, President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, in Poland, had attended a commemoration event to mark the 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
“The Holocaust must never be repeated”, she said, describing Macedonian Jews as part of “our identity” and appealing for a tradition of organised visits to Treblinka to be established.
