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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.

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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...

Am 26. Juni um 16 Uhr findet unser nächstes Cafe Centropa mit Ari Rath statt. Ari Rath wird aus seiner Autobiografie „Ari heißt Löwe“ Erinnerungen, die 2012 im Zsolnay Verlag erschienen ist, lesen.

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...

Aus der Biografie von Emilia Ratz:' Ich hatte einen Cousin, ich weiß nicht genau, von wessen Seite er stammte, er ging in Breslau in die Schule. Der war 1938 als polnischer Jude aus Deutschland ausge wiesen worden. Einmal war er zum Mittagessen bei uns. Er hatte sehr rechte politi sche...

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