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Order for Merits for the People with Golden Star (1st class). This is the last order/medal. I'll be posting her plaques soon.

Order of Labour with Golden Wreath (2nd class)

Order of the Republic with Silver Wreath (2nd class)

Order of Brotherhood and Unity 1st class

Order for Merits for the People 2nd class

Spomenica 1941. From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Of the 27,629 medals awarded, only 12 of them went to Jews who, like Jamila, were from Bitola." Order of the Partisan Star with Rifles (3rd class)

Order for Bravery

I've just stumbled upon this amazing group of medals, orders and plaques from a Yugoslav-Jewish woman Partisan from Macedonia. The whole collection is now owned by the US Holocaust MEmorial Museum. I'll be posting their photos separately since there are around 80 of them. Here's their description of Zhamila: "The Macedonian region, including Bitola where Jamila and her family lived, was occupied by Bulgaria. Jamila worked with resistance groups to fight the occupation and was forced to hide at night for her safety. On March 9, 1943, from her hiding place, Jamila witnessed the roundup and deportation of the Jewish community of Bitola. After a month in hiding, she went to the mountains and joined a partisan detachment. In August 1943, Jamila’s group became part of the Macedonian Partisan Battalion, which liberated a prisoner camp in Greece. In June 1944, a separate Macedonian brigade was formed. In August, Jamila was injured during a battle. On October 30, Jamila’s group liberated the towns of Ohrid and Struga, and a month later Macedonia was liberated. In December, Jamila served as an official at the Second Congress of Anti-Fascist Youth in Skopje. Jamila married a fellow partisan Chede Filipovski. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Jamila returned to Bitola and discovered that her entire family had been deported and murdered at Treblinka killing center. In June Chede was killed in a motorcycle accident. In June 1947, Jamila married Avram Sadikario." I will start with medals and orders first since those are my favourite. Here's the photo of her: Lake Ohrid, Macedonia, circa November 1944:

Those are actually Bulgarian. The first one is a medal of 9th Division. My translation of the back: (I hope a native Bulgarian will confirm my translation) "Remember the soldier who crossed Serbia, reached Ohrid and fought at Doiran." The second one is also the medal of the 9th Division and on the back are inscriptions of various Serbian cities which were captured by Bulgarians in 1915. If I'm not mistaken those aren't official state decorations but rather that of Bulgarian 9th division.

Looks fantastic!

Order of Danilo is 4th class.

It looks like a Capitain 1st class but it's hard to tell.

Google translates "Reparti mitragliatrici modello 907 F" as "Machine gun departmets 907 F". That particular machine gun model is French made which is probably why it has both French and Italian women on relief. Here's the machine gun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Étienne_Mle_1907 Unfortunately I don't know anything about this badge. I hope this information which I found are of any use to you!

Thank you for the information, much appreciated! I didn't know that the IKOM workers are doing restrikes of the Homeland War badges. I wouldn't be surprised if they did the Yugoslav ones either.

The document is actually addressed for a Medal for Military Virtues and it was awarded to a Lieutenant. It's hard to read his name since the paper is folded over it. EDIT: Just realized Paja had already replied a few seconds before me.

I would say a good one but note that I'm not an expert. You should probably hear some other opinions before buying it.

Amazing set of photos! Keep 'em comin'!

Interesting information, thanks!

I cannot remember the exact number unfortunately. If my memory serves me right it was in the range of 40,000 but that could be completely wrong. Sorry!

Such an amazing group!

Could be... If you find the answer please let us know, I will do the same if I find anything.

That one is a real mistery for me. I checked Russian wikipedia for Katukov's awards and there isn't an award which he received with that ribbon. I don't know how familiar you are with Russian but you can check his ribbons on this link. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Катуков,_Михаил_Ефимович

Recently I had an opportunity of buying an exact example as you've shown. It also came in a cellophane bag and with two ribbons. I met the seller in person and I held the item in my hands. It doesn't look that shiny in person to be honest. He claims that he bought 12kg of this order directly from IKOM back in the 90's. I don't see why would he lie about that since he is one of the biggest collectors I've met in person. Here is his site, he's got some impressive stuff. http://www.eu-militaria.com/ He also said that he bought experimental pieces from IKOM. For example Order of Brotherhood and Unity 3rd class which was never actually used since there were only two classes of this order, Order of War Flag etc. The photos of those experimental orders which you can see around the internet are actually his. Unfortunately he sold those orders years ago to someone in Russia if I'm not mistaken. Here are the seller's photos:

Nothing is more sad than a broken set of related items. Hvala na odgovoru!

Beautiful set of photos Overture! How do you know? I'm a rookie at KuK so I'd like to know when I see a fellow Croatian in KuK.