Vlado Makelarski Explained

Vlado Makelarski (Macedonian: Владо Макеларски; 1919–1993) was a Macedonian Partisan in World War II.[1]

Life

Makelarski was born in the village of Maqellarë, Albania in 1919 and completed schooling in nearby Debar, Yugoslavia, where he also worked as a waiter. In 1936, he moved with his parents to Skopje where, with his brother's influence, he joined the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia. His and his brother's apartment was used as a place for illegal communist meetings. In 1943, the apartment was raided with several arrested, while Makelarski was sentenced to death in absentia by the occupying Bulgarian authorities.[2]

Following the war, he became director of the ceramics factory "Yug" in Skopje. After the Tito-Stalin split, Makelarski took the side of the Comintern and was subsequently jailed at Goli Otok.[3]

Makelarski died on 29 January 1993.[4] He was a recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: За волја на вистината . . 25 July 2016 .
  2. Book: Беа, загинаа, останаа: спомен книга на загинатите борци во НОВ и жртвите на фашизмот . 1969 . Исторически архив . Skopje. 160 . MK .
  3. Димче Најчески, Голооточки сведоштва, III, Последици, Скопје, 2006, 38
  4. News: Владо Макеларски, носител на Партизанска споменица 1941 година. 29 January 2003. Утрински Весник. Macedonian. 15 November 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20140606222352/http://star.utrinski.com.mk/?pBroj=1080&stID=3867. 6 June 2014. dead. dmy-all.
  5. Book: Македонска енциклопедија, том II. . Skopje . Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences . 2009 . 978-608-203-024-1 . 899 .