Fund Aleksandar Matkovski

The Fund Aleksandar Matkovski is consisted of rich material in regards to various historical periods of the region of Macedonia. Within this archival material, in separate three boxes, there are various documents referring to the history of the Jews on the Balkans, starting from ancient times, the period of the Ottoman Empire and the Second World War. In that context, the archive material contains important material about the history of the Jews from Macedonia, before the Holocaust, during the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Macedonian Jews after 1943. Aleksandar Matkovski's material for the Jews from Macedonia is also exposed in the work of his books: "Tragedy of the Jews in Macedonia", Skopje 1983 (published also in English in Yad Vashem Studies III, Jerusalem, 1959, under the title: “Destruction of Macedonian Jews”) and "Resistance in Macedonia", Skopje 1983 The Fund Aleksandar Matkovski contains documents and materials from various international archives and institutions, that Aleksandar Matkovski has collected and upon which he conducted his researches, as well as published his scientific works, starting from 1957 to 1992. After his death in 1992, his family handed over the personal archive of Matkovski to the Archive - Macedonian Academy of the Sciences and Arts (MASA), that created the Fund Aleksandar Matkovski. This fund is classified in 23 archive boxes.