Official Presentations:
Speech by the President of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia at the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, 28 January 2000
Title
Speech by the
President of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia at the Stockholm
International Forum on the Holocaust
Date
28 January 2000
Speaker
Ljubco
Georgievski, President of the Republic of Macedonia
Description
7,144
Jews were deported from the territory of the present day Republic of Macedonia
during World War II, according to Ljubco Georgievski. The Macedonian President
expressed the commitment of the government of Macedonia to put any
Holocaust-related documents at public disposal, stating that he "supports the
efforts of disclosing all secret lists and archives of Jewish expropriated
property during the Holocaust".
He also related the efforts of Macedonia to construct a Macedonian Holocaust Memorial Centre in Skopje and to restore the Jewish cemetery and monumental gate erected in 1497 in the city of Bitola.
Source
The Stockholm International Forum
on the Holocaust <http://www.holocaustforum.gov.se/conference/official_
documents/messages/georgevski.htm> accessed 21 May
2002
