{"product_id":"rosies-war-escape-from-si9ngapore-1942-rosalind-sharbanee-meyer","title":"Rosie's War: Escape from Singapore 1942 - Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer","description":"\u003cp\u003eSINGAPORE, 1942, is an exotic tropical city and the home of six-year-old Rosie Sharbanee. Born into a lively Iraqi-Jewish family who rose from humble beginnings to create a thriving business, Rosie's days are filled with the love of her amusing and exasperating relatives and servants. Like most residents of the great island city, they are unaware that the Japanese invasion is about to shatter everything\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForced to flee or submit to the Japanese occupation, Rosie's family splits apart. Rosie's War reveals their hazardous escape to Bombay, from the perspective of watchful, sensitive Rosie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsolated and uncertain of his wife and children's fate, Rosie's father Eliah is incarcerated in Changi, where inmates are exposed to malnutrition and fatal diseases. His mother and sisters join him in the harrowing Sime Road Civil Internment Camp and focus on keeping themselves alive until the war's end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith honesty and affection Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer recalls her fascinating childhood in a family of multilingual British subjects, and illuminates their wartime struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of all, Rosie's War is the story of the loving bond between daughter and father, who after painful separation and estrangement must rebuild their relationship in post-war Singapore and Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSydney Jewish Museum 2013, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A poignant and emotionally charged story of one woman's journey back into her past.. a trip down memory lane filled with odd, enchanting characters...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarren Levin, The Australian Jewish News\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45568564920389,"sku":"744","price":29.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/9997\/3445\/files\/rosieswar.jpg?v=1786963850","url":"https:\/\/shop.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au\/products\/rosies-war-escape-from-si9ngapore-1942-rosalind-sharbanee-meyer","provider":"Sydney Jewish Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}