The Persian Experience: Uprooted from Iran with Sharona Mizrahi

The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience and National Museum of American Jewish History present:

The Persian Experience:

Uprooted from Iran with Sharona Mizrahi

In this part of “The Persian Experience” series, Sharona Mizrahi shares her personal story

Sunday, 28 February at 12:00PM EST

About the speaker:
Sharona was born in Kerman, Iran. Her great-grandparents came from Hamadan and Yazd. Sharona’s great-grandparents escaped the famine of 1917-1920 in Hamadan, the city mentioned in the Book of Esther as Hegmatana or Ekbatana, the capitol of the Persian Empire during Acheshverosh’s regime.

Sharona’s oldest brother, Kurosh, has traced her family’s lineage back six generations. Sharona attended public school in Iran until her first year of high school. Then in 1984, she, along with two sisters and one brother Z”L, escaped from Iran. One night in August, two weeks prior to Rosh Hashanah, smugglers arrived in the middle of the night and the Mizrahi family dropped everything and left their house to escape.

In this talk, Sharona will give a brief history of her family and their one-year journey to the United States.

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