A celebration tied to the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Center took place in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje, under the patronage of the Prime Minister of the Republic Nikola Gruevsky. The center is dedicated to the memorty of the 7148 Macedonian Jews murdered in March 1943 in the Nazi death camp Treblinka. The task of the center is not only to inform about the Catastrophe of European Jewry, but to preserve the evidence for the long history of Jews in Macedonia. Moreover, according to the idea of the organizators – the Holocaust Fund of the Jews from Macedonia and the Jewish community of the republic – the center is to aid the development of interreligious and interethnic understanding and cooperation in the region.

The President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Alexander Mashkevich, said in his speech to the participants of the opening ceremony of the Memorial Center, "I am certain that the preservation of the memory of the Holocaust is the only guarantee of the tragedy not repeating. And today, a new and important step in this direction has been made. The fact that the celebrations are being held under the patronage of the leaders of the country is a visible sign of a new era in European history and the history of Jews in Europe."