Mia Szarvas, at The Blogs

Mia Szarvas

A Jewish American living in Germany

Feb 11, 2021, 7:48 PM

Shabbat as a way to cope with the pandemic

Many of us are living our lives online to stay connected to others; Shabbat provides the opportunity to take a digital break and reconnect with ourselves

Jan 31, 2021, 3:02 PM

Remembering is more than the opposite of forgetting

As the world took pause this week to remember the Holocaust, I read warnings from survivors that we should never forget. Remembering, they said, is not achieved with a single moment of silence, prayer, or candle lit. Remembering is...

About Me

Mia Szarvas was born in Vermont, USA to an Israeli father and Italian-American mother, raised in California, and currently lives in Bremen, Germany. Her grandmother escaped from Poland in August of 1939 with her parents and sister, with whom she set up a new life in Palestine, while the family they left behind perished in the Holocaust. Mia has a degree in Political Ecology from the University of California, Berkeley, holds an M.B.A., and works in tech as a software engineer to create empowerment in unexpected places. She is curious about multiculturalism, languages, feminism, and how our intertwined histories inform the present.