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Tide and wreck: history of the Jews of Vardar Macedonia

Lebl, Ženi
Pp. 243-359 deal with the Holocaust in Yugoslavian Macedonia and in the town of Pirot (southeastern Serbia). These territories were annexed to Bulgaria in 1941, and it was the Bulgarian authorities who carried out the annihilation of local Jews. Discusses the Bulgarian Law for the Protection of the Nation, as well as other anti-Jewish laws, and their implementation in Macedonia. In contrast to the Macedonians and the Slavs in Pirot, Jews were denied Bulgarian citizenship; their property was pillaged and they were subjected to humiliating restrictions. In March 1943, 7,358 Jews of Macedonia and 187 Jews of Pirot were deported to Treblinka. Only a small number of Jewish physicians were exempted from deportation. Some Macedonian Jews took part in the resistance movement. Some Jews were rescued by righteous Macedonians and Albanians, as well as by the Spanish Consulate in Skopje. Discusses, also, the dubious role of King Boris of Bulgaria - whether he was a savior of Bulgarian Jews or a hangman of Macedonian Jews.
Avotaynu 2008 404 pages

Until "the final solution": the Jews in Belgrade 1521-1942

Lebl, Ženi
Pp. 264-338 discuss the Holocaust period, beginning with anti-Jewish laws in Yugoslavia restricting Jewish economic activity, as well as a numerus clausus, in October 1940. Notes that these laws were passed under German pressure, that protests made by the Jewish leadership were to no avail, and that many Jews thereafter converted. With the German occupation and division of Yugoslavia in April 1941, the Nazis took over control of Belgrade and instituted further anti-Jewish measures. During fall 1941 all Jewish men were arrested; they were sent to nearby labor camps, and many were killed. In December all of the remaining Jews, mostly women and children, were interned at Sajmište, and during spring 1942 they were killed in a gassing truck. Provides details concerning the Final Solution in Belgrade, which was carried out with the collaboration of local authorities and police. Estimates that 94% of the ca. 11,870 Jews living there in 1941 were killed. Only a few of the Nazi perpetrators were tried and sentenced in Yugoslavia after the war; the others either fled or returned to Germany, where some received light sentences.
Avotaynu 2007 456 pages