Virtual Coffee Encounters
Upcoming Virtual Coffee Encounter
Topic: Miracle Child: Surviving the Holocaust from Birth with Mira Knei-Paz
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Time: 12:00 p.m. Central Time
Location: Online (Zoom – registration required)
Mira Knei-Paz is a 91-year-old Holocaust “baby survivor” born secretly in a pig shed in Austria after her mother escaped a deportation train. Her father was murdered at Auschwitz while she and her mother survived the war that killed 88% of Hungarian Jewry in four months. She is editor of the acclaimed memoir collection “Only Childhood Does Not Age – We Were Children in the Holocaust,” featuring eight child survivors’ stories from Eastern Europe, now being considered for English translation. Her daughter, Dr. Cigal Knei-Paz joined HRA18 for the Virtual Coffee Encounter in August 2025.
☕About the Event
Join Holocaust Remembrance Association founders Rozalie and Mitch Jerome along with Holocaust Garden of Hope author Dr. Susanna Kokkonen for this timely and thought-provoking Virtual Coffee Encounter.
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Your Hosts:
Rozalie and Mitch Jerome
HRA18 Founders
Dr. Susanna Kokkonen
Author of Holocaust Garden of Hope and former Director of Christian Friends of Yad Vashem
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