Čede Filipovski - Dame () was born in 1923 in the village Nikiforovo (now in

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) near

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. He participated in the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

during

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from its beginning in Yugoslavia in 1941. He died near

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in a car accident, as the Commander of the 48th Macedonian Division, on 29 June 1945. There is a street in

named after him. From December 1944 until his death, he was married to fellow freedom fighter

Žamila Kolonomos Žamila Andžela KolonomosHer first name has been also rendered as Zhamila, Jamila and Djamila. (; June 18, 1922 – June 18, 2013) was a Sephardi Jewish partisan, writer, academic, and political activist in what is now North Macedonia. During W ...

. They had a daughter, Mira, who was born a month after his death. Posthumously he was declared a

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Sources

* Daily Info Package of the Macedonian Information Agency (Thursday/November 16/2006)
Jamila Kolonomos Collection
at the

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