Macedonia opens new Holocaust museum

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NORTH MACEDONIA has opened a museum to commemorate the 8,000 Jews who lived in the territory before the Holocaust.

The three-floor facility in Skopje cost $23 million (£17.5 million) includes displays of hundreds of suitcases and a replica of the train wagon used to transport victims to their deaths.

More than 98 per cent of Macedonian Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.

The funding for the museum came from restitution funds paid in 2000 by the Macedonian government, JTA reported.

Around 200 Jews live in the country today.