Founded in 1014 by Slavs, Bitola is a pleasant town with an interesting clock tower (the town symbol), an old bazaar (Stara Carsija) that is very small compared to the great bazaar in Skopje, and ...

BITOLA, Macedonia (JTA) — About 200 people gathered in this Balkan nation’s second city for a Holocaust commemoration that became one of its largest Jewish events in decades. The gathering ...

BITOLA, North Macedonia (JTA) — In a country where Nazis killed 98 percent of its Jewish minority, the survival of five members from the Abravanel family was regarded as something akin to a miracle.