Egon Holländer

A little white-skinned Slavonic person of about six years old lay very quietly in his cot. He neither moved nor spoke. He had typhus; he was all skin and bones." Excerpt from the book Straight On by Robert Collins.

A pediatrician who saved Egon Holländer (born in Martin, today's Slovakia in 1938) after his liberation from Bergen-Belsen. Egon Holländer's mother Elisabeth died there of typhus; she was 34 years old. As the troops of the Warsaw Pact suppressed the 1968 Prague Spring.

Egon Holländer, who had a degree in engineering, fled to Zurich. He became a corporate executive in the technology industry.

Egon is married and has two daughters and three grandchildren.