The talk will focus on the book – why it was written; how the desperately struggling Targu Mures community of concentration and labour camp survivors were discovered by a member of the Glasgow Jewish community; the setting up of the Targu Mures Trust; and a description of how the lives of both the survivors and their Scottish saviours were transformed and a beautiful friendship developed. It will include readings from the book and a slide show.
Sharon Mail has been writing and taking photographs for the Jewish Telegraph Group of Newspapers since January, 2006. Her first book, We Could Possibly Comment – Ian Richardson Remembered was published in 2009. Her latest book, An Unbreakable Bond – The Targu Mures Holocaust Survivors and Their Scottish Saviours, was published in October, 2024. She is the President of Strathkelvin Writers, where she has been a member for 22 years. Sharon is also a freelance book editor. She edited the first four books in the Jack Cuthbert Mystery series written by Dr Allan Gaw, including The Silent House of Sleep, which won the Bloody Scotland Debut Novel of the Year in 2024. She is a member of Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue.
Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society 