ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2013
Autor: Domaći
Jezik: Engleski

06878) THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT AND THE JEWS FROM MACEDONIA , Jamila Andjela Kolonomos , Skopje 2013 , Ca. 800 Jews participated in the Macedonian resistance against the German and Bulgarian occupiers during World War II. Kolonomos, a Jewish woman from the city of Bitola, who held a high position in Tito`s partisan brigades, gives an account of the activities, events, and battles of the Macedonian resistance. Describes, also, its organization, and recalls the names and deeds of Jewish fighters. On the eve of World War II, Macedonia had a Jewish population of ca. 7,800. In March 1943, almost all of Macedonia`s Jews were arrested by the Bulgarian police and deported to Treblinka. Only 200 Jews survived the war. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Žamila (also Zhamila, Jamila, Djamila) Andžela Kolonomos (June 18, 1922 – June 18, 2013) was a Sephardi Jewish freedom fighter, writer, academic, and political activist in what is now North Macedonia.

During the Bulgarian occupation of her home city of Monastir, Kolonomos joined the anti-fascist Yugoslav Partisan resistance. After fighting to liberate Macedonia, she returned to Monastir to find her entire family had been killed in an extermination camp. She moved to the capital, where she became a professor at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje and worked to preserve the language and history of the country`s Jewish community.
paperback, size 14,5 x 20 cm , illustrated , 173 pages