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Macedonian Holocaust Memorial museum inaugurated

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The Macedonian capital, Skopje, has recently inaugurated a new Holocaust Memorial museum. It is only the fourth in the world after Washington, Jerusalem and Berlin.

Macedonia lost the highest proportion of its Jews of any country in the world - 98% of them murdered in the Holocaust.

Our Balkans correspondent Mark Lowen travelled to the former Yugoslav republic and sent this report.

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