Virtual Coffee Encounters

Rozalie and Mitch Jerome

HRA18 Founders

Grab a cup of something and join us on Wed. December 18th at noon, Central time, for a Virtual Coffee Encounter hosted by Holocaust Remembrance Association founders Rozalie and Mitch Jerome. 

December 18 subject: the attack at Kibbutz Nahal Oz

Hamas terrorists attacked Kibbutz Nahal Oz and a nearby IDF military base on the morning of October 7th, 2023. Hamas ran over the military base as well as the kibbutz. Around sixty Israeli soldiers were killed in addition to six soldiers being taken into captivity in Gaza. At the kibbutz fifteen people were killed and eight taken to Gaza as hostages. Many residents had to stay hiding completely alone in uncertain circumstances for almost 24 hours.

In this remarkable encounter we are going to have with us a survivor and we will see original documentary footage taken during the assault. A young man, Daniel Sumrov, was supposed to be at the Nova festival. In the footage he speaks about what happened to him on October 7. Yekaterina Sumrova, her husband and son were at home in Nahal Oz. We will be seeing original security camera footage from inside their home. They were hiding as the terrorists were inside.

Yekaterina Sumrova will be joining us from Israel. Representing the film-makers Vladimir Karttunen and Pirjo Karttunen, Pirjo, who is the Vice Chairperson of the March of Life in Finland, will be joining us from Helsinki, Finland. There will be an opportunity to ask questions.

With Joseph Krygier

With Dr. Gabriela Benner

With Shaya Ben Yehuda

With John McTernan

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