Virtual Coffee Encounters

Dr. Susanna Kokonnen

We invite you to join us for a meaningful midday conversation on Wednesday, May 21 at 12:00 p.m. Central Time.

This Virtual Coffee Encounter is hosted by Holocaust Remembrance Association founders Rozalie and Mitch Jerome, together with Dr. Susanna Kokkonen. We hope you’ll take a moment to pause, reflect, and engage in this important dialogue.

Rozalie Will Interview Lyn Julius

Join us for this month’s Virtual Coffee Encounter as Rozalie Jerome and Dr. Susanna Kokkonen welcome special guest Lyn Julius, author of Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilisation in the Arab World Vanished Overnight. Don’t miss this powerful conversation exploring the mass exodus of Jews from Arab lands, the untold stories of survival, and why this history matters now more than ever.

2023 March of Remembrance Kingwood Guests

Rozalie and Mitch Jerome

HRA18 Founders

Lyn Julius 

Lyn Julius is a journalist, speaker, and author of “Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilisation in the Arab World Vanished Overnight”. Julius is also the founder of Harif, the UK association for Jews from the Middle East and North Africa.

Watch these Videos of Previous Virtual Coffee Encounters

Tamar Hirschl: A Conversation with an Israeli Artist and Holocaust Survivor

Bob Horowitz: Resilience & Remembrance (Audio), coming soon!

The Attack at Kibbutz Nahal Oz with Pirjo Karttunen and Jekaterina Sumrova

With Joseph Krygier

With Dr. Gabriela Benner

With Rosian Zerner

With Shaya Ben Yehuda

With John McTernan

With Dr. Susanna Kokkonen

With Mary Pollak, widow of child Holocaust survivor Alex Pollak

First aired Thursday, March 25

With Croatian partisan, artist, and Holocaust survivor Eva Deutsche Costabel and March of Remembrance USA Coordinator and Nazi descendant Claudia Kiessinger.

First aired Thursday, February 25, on Purim

With Hungarian child Holocaust survivor Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and renowned Israeli filmmaker Emanuel Rund.

First aired Thursday, January 27, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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