Obj. ID: 50023
Jewish Funerary Art  Ungar Family Grave in the Jewish cemetery in Novi Sad, Serbia, 2011

To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Novi Sad, Serbia

The Ungar family, father Marcel, mother Margit, and children Olga and Tibor, lived before World War II in the town of Novi Kneževac, in northern Banat. Shortly after the beginning of the war - on August 14-15, 1941, the family was arrested and deported to the internment camp in Novi Bečej, together with other Jews of northern Banat. Around September 20, 1941, they were all taken to the town’s port and from there transported to Belgrade. Margit, Olga, and Tibor, as other women and children from Banat, were held in the city’s Jewish community housing with relative freedom of movement, while Marcel and other men were sent to the Topovske Šupe concentration camp located in a former military compound in Belgrade. Marcel Ungar was murdered on October 16, 1941, in the nearby village of Jabuka.

With the help of an acquaintance, Margit managed to escape from Belgrade with her children before the deportation in December 1941. They found shelter with farmers in the village of Svilajnac, in central Serbia, where they lived under false names. Margit became Marija, and children - Olga and Tihomir Urošević. They remained in hiding until the end of the war. It was only upon their return home, that they discovered that Marcel was murdered. In gratitude for his false identity that saved his life, Tibor retained the name Tihomir after the war.

Margit (Ungar) Trajković née Blau (1905-1971) and Tihomir Ungar (1930-2011) are buried in the Jewish Cemetery. In 2011, the family inscribed the name of Marcel Ungar (1897-1941) on the grave, who perished in the Holocaust (grave place - row 7).