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Friday April 16, 1999

38 Jews still trapped in Kosovo

SKOPJE, Macedonia (JPS) -- There are still 38 Jews unable to leave Kosovo, representatives of the Macedonian Jewish community sa
Meeting Monday with a visiting delegation from Israel that had come to pick up refugees from the nearby refugee camps, community

Mizrahi said that as of last weekend, no Kosovo Jews were reported hurt in NATO bombings.

He said that members of surrounding Jewish communities hope to arrange a visit to the Jews of Kosovo soon.

There are currently only about 184 Jews left in the Macedonian Jewish community, some 98 percent of which was wiped out at Treblinka after being turned in to the Nazis by Bulgarian fascist forces.

The community traces its roots back 26 centuries, from even before Alexander the Great, Mizrahi said.

The current round of fighting in the Balkans has led to increasing interest in the possibility of immigration to Israel, he added.

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