Jews prepare soup outside the "Monopol" tobacco factory, used as a transit camp by Bulgarian authorities during deportations of Jews ... [LCID: 71918]
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Jews prepare soup outside the Monopol tobacco factory transit camp

Jews prepare soup outside the Monopol tobacco factory, used as a transit camp by Bulgarian authorities during deportations of Jews from Macedonia. Skopje, Yugoslavia, March 1943.

The Jews of Bulgarian-occupied Thrace and Macedonia were deported in March 1943. On March 11, 1943, over 7,000 Macedonian Jews from Skopje, Bitola, and Stip were rounded up and assembled at the Tobacco Monopoly in Skopje, whose several buildings had been hastily converted into a transit camp. The Macedonian Jews were kept there between eleven and eighteen days, before being deported by train in three transports between March 22 and 29, to the  Treblinka killing center. 


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