Wasn't Israel officially recognized by the U.S. in 1948?
So, besides Serbia being poor after the war, many Jews wanted to live in Israel as a new officially recognized country. It held more promise.
But what I was pointing to, is that if you or others wanted to delve into serious research of Serbia's pre-war Jews, that Israel looks a good place to start as some Serbian Jews were documented as going there. I'd like to know myself, as things seem generally murky - that's why you need specific people/stories to get good details, and many of them. Two families is not enough to go on, you'd have to find more before you get a fair picture. Maybe there are many in Israel who have/had a grandfather or grandmother from Serbia or the rest of Yugoslavia.
Wouldn't Israel have the records somewhere on where people came from as they arrived in the late 1940's?
You could also query people living there (Israeli newsgroups?) on how to find this information.
Yes, but European Jews were emigrating to the Holy Land from the late 1800's on. Things started to heat up in the early 1900's and the masses began running in the 30's culmanating in a flood escaping war torn Europe after the war. It will be a task to find Serbian Jews and history.
I have some friends at the Simon Weisanthal Center, I think I will ask them.
Oh, and by the way, while I was doing a search, I came accross a website that gave me pause.-
Serbian Defense League
documenting Zionist genocides on Serbs
http://sdlusa.com/sdl/
It is a site like this that makes me question things a bit...