Help me to understand my ancestors

[Alan_Boskov]

For anybody else who is attempting to trace ancestors, local memorial organizations may prove helpful. I've surprisingly found this one in Skopje: https://ezrm.vo.mk/memorijalen-centar-na...akedonija/ I didn't know that the occupying Germans had deported Jews from Macedonia, at least on a massive scale. At that time, my grandmother resided in Bulgaria where the Axis partner government refused cooperation on deportations. Whether deportations based solely on visible Judaism or whether selections extended to the point to where any existing census statistics were subjected to detailed examination is yet unknown to me. If the latter were to be the case, it's highly probable that relatives of mine had become victim. Nothing was mentioned to either my mother who didn't understand a word of what my dad was saying to his relatives and friends or to us children, as if the relatives on my father's side had not been aware of their somewhat distant Jewish ancestry.
I'm going to get in contact with the memorial and then report back on the results.
In any event, I'll have to relearn Cyrillic. My grandfather taught me how to write my name using the Cyrillic alphabet, during a visit as I was 11 years old. I've since then forgotten most of it. Refreshing shouldn't be a major problem, though.