2/6 | Yortsayt of Mira Lobe
Today in Yiddishkayt… February 6 Yortsayt of Mira Lobe, Children’s Author Today is the yortsayt of the prolific Austrian children’s author Mira Lobe. Mira Lobe was born Hilda Mirjam Rosenthal on September 17, 1913 in Görlitz, then in the Province of Silesia in the Kingdom of Prussia. She grew up in a Jewish, middle-class family and began writing stories as a young girl. After her father’s death when she was 14 years old, her mother moved the family to Friedeberg am Queis (today Mirsk, Poland) and Mira, as she was called, went to live in Rabenberg where she...
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