Macedonia officially started on Friday the construction of the Memorial Holocaust Center for Jews in the capital city of Skopje, the Macedonian Information Agency ( MIA) reported.

Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski, Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski, local public figures, representatives of the diplomatic corps to Macedonia and Jewish communities from Israel, the United States and Russia attended the ceremony.

"The Memorial Holocaust Center, in a symbolic way, will bring back the victims of Treblinka home, in Macedonia, in the middle of their famous Jewish settlement in Skopje," Buckovski said after laying the cornerstone of the center at the location of former Jew settlement in Skopje.

The center of 4,000 square meters should be completed in a three-year period, financed by means provided from the denationalization of property of deported Jews.

According to the MIA, only Macedonia has passed a special law that enables a denationalization of the property of Jews, who did not survive the holocaust and left no successors.

On Feb. 22, 1943, a total of 7,200 Jews from Macedonia, including many children, were sent away to the Nazi camp " Treblinka" in Poland and most of them were killed there.

Source: Xinhua