Tide and wreck: history of the Jews of Vardar Macedonia
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.