Mirče Acev

Per Yugoslav communist era sources containing the testimony by the Bulgarian police officers, after a long period of physical torture at the Skopje District Police Headquarters and without a trial, after five days of brutal torture, both he and Strašo Pindžur were thrown out of the windows of the police station by the Bulgarian police on 4 January 1943. Per Bechev, he committed suicide jumping from a Police station's window on 4 January 1943. 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:

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.

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, he emphasizes that the population clearly saw the picture of who is the occupier and what is the liberation movement. 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.

Together with Strašo Pindžur in September 1942, they went to visit the partisan detachments and party organizations in Veles and Prilep region. He was accidentally arrested on December 19, 1942 in Veles, together with Strašo Pindžur. He was transferred from Veles to the infamous Skopje police prison. Direct testimonies about the torture and murder of Mirče Acev are given by the head of the Bulgarian state security Ljubomir Jordanov.

He became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1939. He was also responsible for the organization and management of the student colony in Ohrid. In the summer of 1939 he formed the first party organization and the first local committee of the CPY in the city. He was the head of the colony in Ohrid in the following 1940. In the beginning of 1940 he was sent to work illegally in Skopje and until 6 April 1941 he stayed in the city. There he organized the Provincial Committee and together with Strašo Pindžur prepared the printing of the party materials, the newspaper "Iskra".

From the end of 1941 until the spring of 1942, Mirče Acev resided in Bitola. Although in deep illegality, he worked with organizations in Resen and Ohrid. In meetings with leading figures and in letters, Mirče criticized the inaction of the Provincial Committee, which had an impact on the change in its composition in the spring of 1942. In June of that year he became interim secretary of the Provincial Committee. Together with Kuzman Josifovski - Pitu, he advocates the application of the course for armed struggle and approaches the formation of several new partisan detachments in Macedonia.

His sister Vera Aceva, also participated in the World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia and was declared a Yugoslav national hero. After graduating from the primary four-grade school in Oreovec, he went to study at a high school in Prilep. He was forced to drop out of school in Prilep due to the policy of the regime of Petar Živković, that is to close all the high schools, except in Skopje, Bitola and Štip. Mirče went to Bitola and in the school year of 1933/1934 he enrolled in the fifth grade in the Bitola high school. He graduated in the summer of 1937.

Mirče Acev (Macedonian: Мирче Ацев; 20 October 1915, Oreovec, Kingdom of Serbia - 4 January 1943, Skopje, Kingdom of Bulgaria) 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 Yugoslavia, after which he became a commander of the Yugoslav Partisans and was declared a People's Hero of Yugoslavia, on 29 July 1945.