From Beirut to Jerusalem

In 1982, Ang  Swee Chai, a Penang-born Orthopaedic surgeon, flew to the shattered city of Beirut in Lebanon after the Sabra and Shatila massacre. She arrived as a surgeon to heal the wounded, yet she soon became a witness to a tragedy that would forever mark her memory. Amid the ruins and the countless deaths, she listened to stories of suffering, loss, and extraordinary endurance. Her journey from Beirut to Jerusalem reveals the fragile humanity that persists even in the darkest moments of war-a quiet yet powerful testimony to memory, justice, and compassion.