Macedonian President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova attended an event commemorating the Holocaust of the Macedonian Jews at the Treblinka memorial in Poland. The President paid her respects to the victims and laid a wreath at the monument dedicated to the 7.144 Macedonian Jews deported by the fascist occupiers to the Treblinka death camp in 1943.
In a statement to the media, Siljanovska-Davkova said the country would not permit historical revisionism and falsification of the truth about the Holocaust of the Macedonian Jews.
“Here we stand before evidence, or rather an abyss of evil. We all believe and promise that we will not allow historical revisionism. Evil can’t be embellished, because there is proof of it at home, and there is proof of it here. Their homes are among us, their houses still stand. It is no coincidence that we have a Holocaust Memorial Center. It is no coincidence that everyone knows where the Jewish quarter was. It is no coincidence that everyone remembers those wonderful people. That brilliant mind was erased by a terrible, inhuman, malicious mind. That is why we often say that the truth must not be falsified, the truth must not be embellished, because it is impossible to turn evil into good. No one has ever succeeded in that. In the heart of Skopje, we have three urns with ashes from Treblinka,” said the Macedonian head of state.
The President laid flowers at the central monument in Treblinka, toured the museum exhibition, and met with Edward Kopówka, head of the Memorial and Museum Complex. President Siljanovska-Davkova welcomed the installation of a new wall on which all known names of Jews murdered in Treblinka will be inscribed, including the names of Macedonian Jews.
In Warsaw, the head of state laid a wreath at the monument dedicated to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Siljanovska-Davkova is the first Macedonian President to visit the Treblinka memorial.
