Fund 5. Delegate of the Commissariat for Jewish Questions and the Skopje Jewish Community - Skopje (1915-1947)

Guide through the Holding Funds of the State Archive of the Republic of Macedonia (Skopje: State Archive of the Republic of Macedonia, 1996) Водич (Скопје: Државен Архив на РМ, 1996) Copying and scanning of the material are allowed. The earliest archival data about the existence of the Jewish Community in Skopje comes from the letter sent by the Metropolitan Neophyte, to the President of the Jewish community in Skopje, Eliezer Navarro about the formation of the Red Cross on December 8th, in 1915. The document on the "Rules of the Jewish Religion of the Jewish Community in Skopje", adopted in 1936, provides information on the organization of the Jewish Community as an independent institutional body. The document informs that its nature is accomplished by managing the religious-administrative, cultural and charitable institutions, as well as religious property, both movable and immovable. The function of the Jewish Community in Skopje is realized through uniting and educating all Jews individuals and families, in Skopje through the synagogal activities and school programs. During the Second World War, the Skopje Jewish Community, continued to exist in changed conditions, imposed by the laws of fascist Bulgaria. In August 1942, the Commissariat for Jewish Questions was constituted within the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Health in Sofia. With this, the Jewish Community was subordinated to the Commissariat. In parallel with the establishment of the Commissariat, the Council of Ministers adopted the "Rules on the Organization and Management of the Jewish Communities." The Jewish Community's administration was consisted of: a delegate, a president and four to six members appointed by the delegate. Also, Jewish associations and foundations ceased to exist. After the liberation, a constitutive session of the Macedonian-Jewish National Liberation Committee was held on December 26th, 1944 in Skopje. The renewed Jewish Community in Skopje dealt with the problems of helping the Jews who survived the Holocaust, solving their housing and social needs, restoring the synagogue, as well as identifying the number of victims in the Holocaust in Macedonia. • Rules for organization and work of the Skopje Jewish Club founded in 1920 (1923) • Diplomas (charters) in Jewish language • Ordinances for organization of the Jewish community in Skopje (1936) • Directions for evaluation of the real estate belonging to the persons of Jewish origin and taxation of their property (1941) • Commentary on the Law for Protection of the Nation (Sofia, 1941) • Law on one-time taxation on the property belonging to persons of Jewish origin (1941) • List of persons of Jewish origin who own deposits and shares in the Skopje Export Bank (1941) • List of Decisions and Laws issued by the Bulgarian fascist government against persons of Jewish origin (1941-1942) • Proclamation of the Macedonian Communist Party for organizing an uprising against the occupier (1941) • Order for obedience of the legal regulations regarding the freedom of movement of persons of Jewish origin, issued by the Office of the Jewish Community in Skopje (1942) • Book of regulations on the organization and management of Jewish communities according the Order by the Council of Ministers, from August 29, 1942 • Order for appointment of a Delegate of the Commissariat for Jewish Questions, in accordance with the Order by the Council of Ministers (1942) • List of poor people of Jewish origin (1942) • Laws and Orders regulating the Jewish question, published in the "State Gazette" in Sofia (1942) • Act issued by the Bulgarian Council of Ministers concerning the confiscation of the immovable property of the persons of Jewish origin, that left the borders of the state (1943) • Order for liquidation of the property owned by persons of Jewish origin, that left the borders of the state (1943) • Decision by which certain persons of Jewish origin are allowed to obtain a passport and leave the state (1943) • Notice on the renewal of the Jewish community in Skopje (1944) • Meeting of the Holocaust Survivors, on December 20, 1944 (1944) • Data about the evaluation of the confiscated property of the persons of Jewish origin (1945) • Report on establishing a Board to provide help the Jews from Yugoslavia, based in Belgrade and a recommendation a Committee to help the Jews in Macedonia to be formed (1945) • List of the Jews at the Jewish Community in Skopje (1945) • Articles from the Meetings of the Jewish Youth Cultural Society, held in October 1945 (1945) • Act to the Investigation Commission (1945) • Act from the Department for the Protection of the People issued by the Jewish Community in Bitola, regarding the persons who organized and committed the crimes against the Jews (1945) • Record from meeting of the Administration of the Jewish Community in Skopje, held on April 25, 1946 (1946) • A document confirming that the Jews on the list, in March 1943 were forcibly taken to Germany and for which there is no later information (1947) • Order for fixing and forming the budget of Jewish communities, issued by the Council of Ministers (1942) • Directions for preparing a budget for 1942, sent to the synagogue in Skopje (1942) • Report lists confirming the submission of funds to the account 544 Fund for community, obtained from the sale of the property by persons of Jewish origin (1943) • Reports about the collected money from the Jews who were assembled in the camp in Skopje (1943) • Register of 161 persons of Jewish origin (1942) • Badges for the Jews and a list of issued badges (1941) • Cartons for marking Jewish homes (1941) • Coupons for supplying the Jews with bread (1943) • Lists of members of the Jewish families who lived in cities in Macedonia and Serbia • List of persons of Jewish origin owners of radio equipment • Request from Petar Gabrovski, Minister of Internal Affairs and Public Health, sent to the Council of Ministers to issue an order to the Commissariat for Jewish Questions to carry out the deportation of the Jews from Macedonia and Thrace (1943) • Agreement for deportation of 20,000 Jews to the German-Easter regions, signed between Alexander Belev (1943) • Plan for an organized transfer of Jews from their homes to the temporary camp (1943) • Statements by the Holocaust survivors about the forced eviction of Jews from their homes and their deportation (1943) • List of members of Jewish families assembled in the temporary camp in Skopje and the schedule of trains for deportation (1943) • Lists (in German language) of the members of Jewish families assembled in the temporary camp in Skopje (1943) • Data about the Jews from Skopje, Stip and Bitola assembled in the temporary camp in Skopje (1943) • A plea from a group of Jews to be released from the temporary camp in Skopje, as foreign citizens (1943) • Decisions for the appointment of the personnel to assist in the temporary camp in Skopje (1943) • Registration of medicines for the needs of the temporary camp in Skopje (1943)