
 
 
Righteous  gentile Dragoljub Trajkovic was posthumously honored Wednesday for saving the  lives of three Jews during the Holocaust. The ceremony took place at the Garden  of the Righteous Among the Nations at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in  Jerusalem.
Trajkovic’s daughter Nada accepted a medal and certificate of  honor on behalf of her father, who passed away 20 years ago. Also present were  descendants of the Unger family Trajkovic saved in Serbia during the  Holocaust.
Nada Trajkovic accepts certificate of honor (photo: Yossi Ben  David, Yad Vashem)
Trajkovic joins a list of over 22,700 individuals who  have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations and whose names are  inscribed on a memorial wall in Yad Vashem. He saved Margita Unger and her two  children, Olga and Timohar, from almost certain death in the Nazi concentration  camps. 
Margita and Marcel Unger and their children Olgag and Timohar  lived in Banat, in the former Yugoslvaia, until August 1941 when they were  deported to the nearby city of Belgrade. A short time later Marcel was taken to  the Topovske Supe concentration camp and his family would never hear from him  again. 
10,000 out of Belgrade’s 12,000 Jews were killed in the  Holocaust.
In October of the same year, Trajkovic, a railway employee  whose wife was a relative of the Ungers, heard the remaining Jews in Belgrade  were to be deported to the Sajmiste concentration camp. On the day of the  deportation, he took the three remaining Ungers into his house.
Not long  afterwards, Travkovic felt that the Ungers were in danger and decided to obtain  forged identity papers for them. He moved the Ungers to a nearby farm and paid  the farmers to hide the mother and daughters and provide for all their needs.  They remained at the farm until the end of the war.
Nada Trajkovic by her father's name (Yossi Ben  David, Yad Vashem)