Jewish Witness to a European Century
an interactive database of jewish memory

The first oral history project that combines old family pictures with the stories that go with them, Centropa has interviewed more than 1,350 elderly Jews living in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Sephardic communities of Greece, Turkey and the Balkans. With a database of 25,000 digitized images, we are bringing Jewish history to life in ways never done before.
Centropa Films
the library of rescued memories

Although we cannot visit - physically - Central Europe's pre-Holocaust Jewish communities, that world lives on in the stories and snapshots of those we've interviewed.
Add your Family Pictures

The other side of Ellis Island. Got a picture or two of when your family lived "in the old country"? Why not share it with tens of thousands of centropa readers and connect to others from the same shtetl, city or country.
Centropa Magazine

Eating Around
Eastern Europe
Great recipes,
stories about
food, and an
eaters' readers'
forum for you to add
your own recipes and ex-
change cooking tips online.

Travels with Ruth Ellen Gruber
No one knows the back roads and big cities of Mitteleuropa like Ruth Ellen Gruber. Click here to find itineraries, travel tips and a forum for sharing your own travel tips.

The Centropa Resource Center
Click here for e-cards, downloadable e-books, an oral history tool kit and virtual
exhibitions you can download and print.

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