Today the Mayor of Municipality Shtip, Blagoj Bochvarski attended the marking of the day of death of Vera Ciriviri-Trena. 74 years after her death the memory of this heroine remains, but also her ideas of freedom and equality are still living and represent values that shape our everyday life.

Vera at only fifteen years, started her revolutionary activity and dedication to the national liberation struggle of our country. Vera Cirivir-Trena died young, but in her short life, she left a lasting stamp in the Macedonian history. She participated in NOV and SKJ and also organized the sending delegates in the First ASNOM Meeting.

Her full commitment to the national liberation struggle, the liberation of Macedonia and the establishment of the foundations of the independence and sovereignty of our country have been resolved to the point where Vera consciously sacrificed herself and did not hide in the houses where partisans were hidden just to protect themselves. Vera Ciriviri-Trena is a significant person which showed how to love our country and protect it from domestic and foreign malicious.

Self-sacrifice of Vera Ciriviri-Trena and her colleagues was rewarded in 1945 when not only Macedonia becomes sovereign and independent for the first time, but women were granted the right to vote for the first time, and women’s rights became the part of the Constitution of SFRJ, which marked gender equality in the spheres of the state, economic and social-political life. Our debt towards these women is enormous.

Shtip and the citizens of Shtip will continue to maintain the memorial of Vera Ciriviri-Trena and will remember the National Liberation Struggle and the brightest part of the Macedonian history.