Centropa News

37 teachers, school administrators and curriculum writers from South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Florida and Alabama spent two intensive days sharing best practices, watching new Centropa films and writing lesson plans together. Thanks to all! Click here to see photos of the seminar!

the members of the Cafe Centropa visit Graz and open the Sarajevo Exhibition At The Graz Museum. Click here to view the pcitures of the event.

Between the 7-9 of February we organized an international seminar in Budapest for 38 teachers from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary. During the seminar teachers shared ideas,best practices,and developed lesson plans on how to teach the Holocaust and 20th century Jewish history. They also worked on one of our...

Survival in Sarajevo Exhibition opening at the San-Francisco Public Library (01.22.2014). You can view the pictures of the opening by clicking here.

Thanks to Carson Phillips of Toronto and the team of the Bank Postsparkasse 25 Canadian teachers meet with us on July 3 in the legendary building of the Bank, built by Otto Wagner in 1906. The teachers were on a Holocaust Educator Study Tour. The group consisted of 20 teachers...

The Spanish daily newspapers El Confidencial and El Diario Montanes published an article about Centropa in their online editions of June 8, 2013. They wrote about Centropa's work in general, and about Centropa's effort to preserve and document the "Sephardic world" in the Balkans. The article, published on both newspapers'...

Our brand-new German-English language traveling exhibition "Survival in Sarajevo: Jews, Muslims and Christians Working Together During the Bosnian War, 1992-1995" is already on its second stop. On June 4 at Neue Mittelschule Lassnitzhöhe near Graz, Centropa's EU Education Director Fabian Rühle and Ulrike Lackner, teacher of History and Arts, and...

To close out our US State Department grant, we spent an afternoon with nearly 90 teachers and students from schools all over Poland, and we awarded prizes for best videos. Thanks, first of all, to the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Warsaw fo r helping make this event possible. Thanks also...

To close out our US State Department grant, on the 14th of May we spent an afternoon with nearly 150 teachers and students from schools all over Hungary, and we awarded prizes for best videos, lesson plans and special projects. Thanks, first of all, to the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung for...

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