Centropa News

President of the Parliament Wolfgang Sobotka hosted Centropa’s 13th Hanukkah party in Vienna. Attending were 31 Holocaust survivors who we interviewed, their families and two high school classes. Also invited was the leadership of the IKG— the Vienna Jewish Community along with the Vienna Social Welfare Office, as well as...

Between November 30 and December 2, we organized a seminar in Vilnius for 35 Lithuanian educators. Teachers explored Jewish history and the materials Centropa has to offer, and took part in an excursion to Alytus.

Our 10th international Trans.History seminar “Connecting Moldovan students with 20th Century Jewish History – and with their neighbors” took place at the Jewish Community Center in Chisinau, Moldova from November 28th – 30th, 2018. We brought together 40 educators from Ukraine, Moldova and Germany to discuss and share best practices...

Our 9th international Trans.History seminar took place at the Marie-Kahle-Gesamtschule in Bonn from November 8th – 10th, 2018. We brought together 25 educators from Ukraine, Moldova and Germany to discuss and share best practices on commemorating Jewish history and culture, and promoting active citizenship in educational contexts. Teachers took part...

Thanks to the terrific Los Angeles educators who joined us for a one day workshop on November 3, in Santa Monica - Rachel Freeman, Toni Jones, Julie Kennedy, Alice Lee, Cheryl Mick, Julie Drake, and Yim Tam. Special thanks goes to Yim Tam for her outreach, organization, and everything she...

Vienna, on the night of November 10, 1938: Synagogues are being set on fire and Jewish shops destroyed throughout the city. Jews are hunted, kidnapped and murdered. For the 80th anniversary of the tragic events, Centropa has created a website where you can learn about how Jewish eyewitnesses experienced the...

The Macedonian version of the Lost Sephardic World exhibition is on its way around Macedonia! It has been opened in Prilep, Bitola, and Stip. The Prilep exhibition was hosted by the Cultural Center “Marko Cepenkov”. Students of our Centropa teacher Robert Koneski told the Sephardic stories from Bitola, Belgrade, Dubrovnik...

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The aim of our Common Ground program is to bring together students who have very different social and cultural background, in order to fight the natural segregation which is present in Hungary today. In the framework of the program, Roma and non-Roma, Jewish and non-Jewish, Budapest and countryside students meet...