{"product_id":"sunshine-memory-and-the-healing-of-time-egon-sonnenschein-1","title":"Sunshine, Memory and the healing of time - Egon Sonnenschein","description":"\u003cp\u003eEgon grew up in the peaceful city of Ptuj. Today it is in the new country of Slovenia. There, he spent an idyllic childhood with his parents and brother Kurt, whiling away long days fishing, learning to swim and watching his favourite cousin hypnotize doves on the window ledge. But by the age of 11, Egon had become an unwilling witness to horrific atrocities perpetrated by the Ustashe, a violent right-wing terrorist group otherwise known as the Croatian Nazis. The advancing shadow of German Nazism propelled Egon's family to flee to Bosnia, from there to a political jail in Italian occupied Slovenia, then internment in Italy and finally to Switzerland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis detailed and moving memoir explores the impact of Nazism on Jews of the former Yugoslavia. Egon takes us with him through the political upheavals in post war Europe, the joys and struggles of migration to the young nation of Israel and life in apartheid South Africa. Finally, he and his family settle in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the age of 26, Egon, with minimal English, landed his first real job as an assistant weaving manager in East London, South Africa. Ten years later he started his own factory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEgon has a strong sense of fairness and justice. He never forgot those whose kindness saved his life. In 2019 he succeeded in having Yad Vashem honour his adopted sister's Muslim rescuers as 'Righteous amongst the Nations'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSJM Publishing 2019, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SJM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45623534813253,"sku":"1233","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/9997\/3445\/files\/egon.jpg?v=1787828956","url":"https:\/\/shop.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au\/products\/sunshine-memory-and-the-healing-of-time-egon-sonnenschein-1","provider":"Sydney Jewish Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}