Gjelay, Tom Nick (Posses. Forest) (s. Immediately after the fascist occupation of Macedonia he arrived in Gostivar (1941) as a forestman, after which he received the illegal name forest. Here he joined the Macedonian folk liberation movement. He showed a special activity in the organized Albanian population in the NOB. As the deputy commander of the Mavrovo-Gostivar NOOP “Korab” (March 1943), he gave a special contribution to the training of fighters in handling weapons. He participated in the first struggle of the Novo Selo, in the successful action in the village. Vrutok, as well as in the disarmament of two financial stations in Gostivar,, among other things, with 2 pecmomatalleis, 17 rifles, 8,000 bullets and 250 blankets. At the same, eight Italians and four Albanians joined, and his Brother composition of 30 has grown on 70 & 80 fighters (August 1943). When establishing the first operational zone of NEW and POM, the GS of New and Pom appointed the deputy of the zone, and then for the commander of the Macedonian-Sicekar Kicevski, but the Battalion (the first battalion of the first operational zone of New and Pom or Kicevski Battalion, Known as a thin battalion, formed in free Kicevo (23. IX 1943), in which the Mavrovo-Gostivar NOOP “Korab” entered. In the fight against ballistic powers, led by German officers, with the village. Zajas (Kichevo) was heavily wounded and after two days he died. Editor of c. “People’s soldier”, the authority of the first Macedonian but a brigade (July 1944), Ilija Topolovski wrote that they lost “a valuable man”, “fear and trembling for all Albanian reaction, the most beloved and most popular our fighter. In those struggles, the enemy not only failed to break the brotherhood, but on the contrary, jointly shed blood against the joint enemy even more and deepened our brotherhood. ” PROJECT: Project Document and Give Oral Liberation Reta Yugoslavian People, Tom ⅶ, Kne. 1, Belgrade, 1954, Doc. no. 100; Sources for the Liberation War and the Revolution in Macedonia 1941-1945, Tom and, book second, Skopje, December 1968, 217, 218, 269, 341, 343 and 455; Kicevo and Kichevo in New 1941-1945. Documents. Selection and newsroom Vasil Jotevski, Dr. Simo Mladenovski and Gjorgji Chakarianevski, Kicevo, 1985, 176179, 182 and 382. Lit: Ilija Topolovski, Our Brigade and Brotherhood with the Albanian people, “People’s Soldier”, organ Brigade, and, 2-3. Poljay, July-August 1944; They were killed in the name of freedom (Random N Emio Të Lirisë; Özgürlük Adina Red Verdiller), Gostivar, 1980, 258; Dushan Ristoski, chronology of events from the People’s Liberation War 1941-1945 in Kicevo and Kichevo. Second supplementation, Kicevo, 1984, 64-65. S. Ml.
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