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ABOUT US
On the eve of the German invasion of Yugoslavia 810 Jewish families – 3,351 people – lived in Monastir (Bitola), a vibrant, ancient Sephardic-Jewish community. On 11 March 1943 the Jews of Monastir, together with the entire Jewish population of Macedonia, were taken by soldiers, police and Bulgarian officials to Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, where they were held at the local “Monopol” tobacco factory under deplorable conditions. A few days later, on 22 March 1943, the first transport of Macedonian Jews was deported in sealed cattle cars bound for Poland. In the days that followed, on 25 and 29 March, additional transports departed, all for the same destination – Treblinka.
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We are here to tell the story of a community that once was, and is no longer.
