Mirče Acev

Mirče Acev (; 20 October 1915 – 4 January 1943) was a Macedonian organizer of the Yugoslav communist resistance in Vardar Macedonia during World War II. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia he became a leader of the Regional Committee of Communists in Macedonia and was declared postmortally a People's Hero of Yugoslavia, on 29 July 1945.

Biography He was born in 1915 in Prilep, in the Kingdom of Serbia, during the Bulgarian invasion during the First World War. He was named after his uncle Mirche Atsev a IMRO revolutionary. His sister Vera Aceva, also participated in the World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia and was declared a Yugoslav national hero.

In a letter sent by Mirče Acev to Ljupčo Arsov (who was then interned), written on 30 November 1942, he describes the plight of the population, the physical terror, and point out that there was psychological terror from local Bulgarians, led by Dimitar Chkatrov, Dimitar Gyuzelov, etc. close to Ivan Mihailov. The manuscript letter preserved by Mirče Acev was written in an alphabet close to the Macedonian alphabet, which was formalized in 1945. The letter is kept in the archives of INI, arch. No. 176.

After the news of the martyrdom of Mirče Acev and Strašo Pindžur, their comrades issued a leaflet-letter on the occasion of their murder, in which they expressed in detail their clear aspirations for the struggle for freedom of the Macedonian people. They also describe their heroic families, as families that fought for the freedom of Macedonia and the preservation of the ideals and the path set by the Ilinden revolutionaries. A small part of the letter describes the terror and the horrible image of their bodies:"...How many thousands of honest Macedonians "lost their hair" when they saw Mirče's body in the hospital morgue, and in Prilep when they buried him with severed fingers, nails and torn flesh from the bones. Macedonian mothers, fathers and sisters have seen their sons and brothers tortured and beaten, but so far they have not seen such brutal and inhuman torture. Torture made by like Hitler and the Bulgarian fascists, cannot be compared not even to the torture of the Turkish janissaries, bashibozluci and krdzali. While they hid the Pindzur's body, so that his broken bones could not be seen, because they have learned from Mirče's case, that they've became mortification in the eyes of the people."

In honor of Mirče Acev, the first battalion of the Macedonian Partisans, formed on 18 July 1943, was named after him. In his honor and in honor of Strašo Pindžur, the songs "Ajde ke te prašam, bre Donke“ and „Vardare gord, podzapri“ were sung. Today many objects, streets, schools including the army garrison in the city of Prilep, are named after him.