"the egypt of my childhood had a universal flavour and was without conflict, a wide ranging and inclusive breath that we carry with us like a precious gift’’. these are the words of the protagonists-witnesses of a golden age, buried beneath the happy sands of the sahara in the late 1950s, when the jews of egypt, settled for centuries, were forced to leave everything behind, their homes in cairo and alexandria, their properties, businesses, assets, money, activities, their homeland.