Testimony of Michael Herzog, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Veliki Beckerek, Belgrade, a marked house, and possessing a Swiss protective pass in Budapest

Testimony of Michael Herzog, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1928, regarding his experiences in Veliki Beckerek, Belgrade, a marked house, and possessing a Swiss protective pass in Budapest Witness' family moves to Yugoslavia when the witness is a baby; displays of antisemitism, 1939. Air-raids; German occupation, 1941; decrees including yellow badge; his father is drafted for forced labor; unsuccessful attempt to escape in the direction of Hungary with his mother and siblings; deportation to the Veliki Beckerek closed camp; release; return to Belgrade; name change to Kovac and use of a false Aryan identity; move to Budapest; his father's return; preliminary absorption with help from the extended family; living quarters in a Budapest suburb; German occupation, March 1944; deportation to a marked house; forced labor; decrees including yellow badge; Swiss Embassy provides protective passes to the whole family; approach of the front; air-raids; liberation by the Red Army, 18 January 1945. Return to Yugoslavia; displays of antisemitism after the war; aliya to Israel, December 1948.