Thomas Yagoda

Testimony of Thomas Yagoda, born in 1932 in Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia, about his experiences in Zrenjanin, Gross Becskerek, Novi Sad, Budapest, etc. Testimony about childhood in Zrenjanin; relations with the non-Jewish population; German occupation ensies in April 1941; robbery and dispossession by locala Volksdeutscher; deportation to Gross Becskerek; father deported to Topovske Šupe; women deported to Zemun; escape with a smuggler to Novi Sad and Budapest in December 1941; making contact with the Jewish community; departing with the Kasztner group in July 1944; transfer to the Ungarnlager at Bergen Belsen; the influence of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum; special transport to Switzerland in August 1944; back to Yugoslavia; immigration to Israel aboard the Radnika in December 1948.