Centropa

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Centropa is the internet name of the registered association in Austria Center for Research and Documentation of Jewish Life in Eastern and Central Europe and denotes the association's English, German and Hungarian-language web portal . In addition to the main Vienna office, Centropa also has offices in Budapest, Hamburg and Washington DC

In Centropa's main office in Vienna, an international team of historians, filmmakers, journalists and educators works to preserve and convey the Jewish history of the 20th century in Central and Eastern Europe , the former Soviet Union , the Balkans and the Baltic states using eyewitness accounts .

Based on this online archive, Centropa develops teaching materials in international cooperation with educators and multipliers, which are freely available on Centropa's website. In regular training seminars, teachers are trained in handling these materials and asked for feedback on quality assurance.

history

Pal and Erno Friedmann go on vacation in Bad Ischl, 1911

The concept of an online archive of Jewish memory came about when Edward Serotta, director of Centropa, was handed a chest with yellowed pictures while researching an ABC Nightline report in Romania. The members of the Jewish community called the chest "The Library of Lost Pictures" because no one could remember the people in the pictures. Determined to counteract this, Edward Serotta found two Hungarian-Jewish historians who also wanted to do everything in their power to preserve the stories of their grandparents in order to pass them on to their own children. This gave rise to the idea of ​​founding an archive that would document not only the Holocaust , but the entirety of Jewish life in the 20th century, and thus preserve Jewish memories.

The Jewish Witnesses of a European Century project was carried out between 2000 and 2008. The feeling that time is running out was always present; Edward Serotta: "Twenty years ago the necessary technology had not yet existed, and in twenty years most of those people who shared their stories with us will no longer be with us."

The archive now includes more than 1,200 digitized life stories and almost 24,000 family photos. Interviews were conducted and family photos were collected and digitized across Europe. There is a story to every picture; Extensive questions were asked about their ancestors, their professions, schools and above all about everyday life and the world of their childhood. Although the experiences during the Holocaust are also recorded, the main eye work is on the period before and after World War II .

The photos and stories collected were sorted by keywords and published in an online database that is available worldwide.

Centropa educational program

Since 2007 Centropa has been working with educators on a multimedia educational program for schools in Europe, the USA and Israel. In order to make the materials collected in the online archive more attractive for schoolchildren, Centropa has prepared some of the most exciting interviews as short educational films. Currently (as of 2018), over 50 of these biographical short films about Jewish-European family histories of the 20th century are made freely available on Centropa's website . There are online study guides for each film, which are also available free of charge.

In addition, under the heading “Border Jumping” there is an interactive project page for schoolchildren, where school classes can share their own projects - photos, videos, PowerPoint presentations and texts - with one another. More than 300 teachers (from the USA, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Lithuania, Sweden, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey, and Israel) are now part of the Centropa school network. 

The 2018 Summer Academy

Centropa brings educators together to design teaching materials at regional training seminars in Europe, Israel and the USA. Jewish sites are visited together to provide a better understanding of regional Jewish history.

The transnational approach of these educational programs is also reflected in the Centropa project "Trans.History", which offers interdisciplinary educational programs for educators, young people and NGO actors from Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova and also represents an exchange platform with German educators.

In addition to these educational programs, which consist of seminars and workshops, Centropa also offers a networking platform for Jewish schools in Europe called the Centropa Jewish Network (CJN).

The summer academy takes place once a year, where educators, directors and educational multipliers from all partner countries meet and develop teaching materials and partnerships with one another.

Exhibitions

Since 2005, Centropa has also been developing traveling exhibitions with different thematic and geographical focuses. As part of these exhibitions, photos and stories from Centropa's archive are combined with historical maps and texts.

These show walls are part of the exhibition in Lithuania (November 2012)

The exhibitions are designed in such a way that they can be easily transported and set up. This ensures that interested schools, libraries, cultural centers etc. can request, show and use the exhibition at no great cost.

Up to now there have been traveling exhibitions on various aspects of the Jewish history of Lithuania , the Czech Republic, Hungary , Spain , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Austria , Poland and Romania . 

Filmography

All films are available free of charge on the Centropa website.

Documentaries

  • Maps, Central Europe and History
  • Survival in Sarajevo - Friendship in a Time of War
  • The Krakow Slideshow
  • Jewish Soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Army
  • El Otro Camino: 1942
  • A Life not Lived - The Jews of the Mosel Valley
  • The Ladino Ladies' Club
  • Epilogue - The Ones I Lost
  • Eliezer Papo - Jews, the Balkans & History
  • Aunt Rosie's Kitchen
  • Searching for Hope: The Sarajevo Haggadah
  • Peter Ginz and the Boys of Vedem

Personal stories

Austria

  • Herbert Lewin - Stories of my Life
  • Leo Luster - The Past is Another Country
  • Max Uri - Looking for Frieda, Finding Frieda
  • Kitty and Otto Suschny - Only a Couple of Streets away from Each Other
  • Kurt Brodmann - The Story of the Brodmann Family
  • Lilli Tauber - A Suitcase full of Memories

Czech Republic / Slovakia

  • Jindrich Lion - My Escape from Prague
  • Dagmar Lieblova - From Bohemia to Belsen ... and back again
  • Ernest Galpert - Growing up Religious
  • Katarina Lofflerova - The Importance of a Good Vacation

Germany

  • Zahor - Remember
  • Rosa Rosenstein - Living with History
  • Erna Goldmann - From Frankfurt to Tel Aviv
  • A Life not lived - The Jews of the Mosel Valley

Hungary

  • Introduction on Hungarian Jewish History
  • Miksa Domonkos - The Mayor who worked in Hell
  • Mariann Szamosi - The Women who taught me Everything
  • Judit Kinszki - Love on a Paper Airplane
  • Miklos Braun - The Wedding Photo
  • Laszlo Nussbaum - Europe without Borders
  • Jozsef Faludi - An Orthodox Childhood
  • Panni Koltai - 3 Generations, 6 Weddings
  • Piroska Hamos - Life on the Danube

Poland

  • Teofila silver ring - So that Memory doesn't Die
  • Mieczyslaw Weinryb - My Town of Zamosc
  • The Krakow Slideshow

Romania

  • Juci Scheiner - Love on a Motorcycle
  • Aunt Rosie's Kitchen

Serbia

  • Matilda Kalef - Three Promoses

Bosnia

  • Hana Gasic - My Spanish Bosnian Life

Macedonia

  • Beno Ruso and Roza Kamhi: The Years make their Own

Bulgaria

  • Leonita Arditi - An Actress looks Back
  • Matilda Albuhaire - A Sephardic Family Story
  • Larry and Rosa Anzhel - Married Twice in a Lifetime
  • The History of Bulgarian Jewry during the Holocaust

Croatia

  • Rifka and Elvira - Coming of Age in a Time of War

Turkey

  • Guler Orgun - A Turkish-Jewish-Muslim-Tale

Greece

  • Renée Molho - A Bookstore in Six Chapters

Ukraine

  • Haya-Lea Detikno - Surviving Stalin's Gulag
  • Return to Rvine - A Holocaust Story
  • Arnold Fabrikant - Jewish Soldier's Red Star
  • The Bogoslav Slideshow

Moldova

  • The Stroy of Ivan Barbul
  • The Story of Tamara Koblik

Lithuania

  • The Centropa Lithuanian Slideshow
  • Rana Malkhanova - A World Destroyed, a World to Remember

Publications

  • "How we lived: Viennese Jews remember their 20th century", Tanja Eckstein (ed.), Julia Kaldori (ed.), Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2008.
  • "To Begin Again: Jewish Life in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of Communism in 1989", Ruth Ellen Gruber (Ed.), Centropa, 2009.
  • " Kinszki Imre 1901-1945. Fotográfiák / Photographs", Centropa: Vienna, 2009 / Vintage Galéria: Budapest, 2009. ( online , PDF)
  • "The German Jewish Source Book", Centropa: Vienna, 2018.
  • "The Hungarian Jewish Source Book", Centropa: Vienna, 2017.
  • "Once upon a time in Vienna", Centropa: Vienna, 2017.
  • "Stetl Stories: Lithuanian Jews remember the 20th Century", Centropa: Vienna 2016.
  • "The Polish Jewish Source Book", Centropa: Vienna / Washington, 2015.
  • "The Balkan Jewish Source Book", Centropa: Vienna / Washington, 2014.
  • "The Vienna Jewish Source Book", Centropa: Vienna, 2014.
  • "Vienna Stories: Viennese Jews remember the 20th century in words and pictures", Centropa: Vienna, 2013.

Catalogs for exhibitions

  • "Library of saved memories. Jewish family stories, films and photos from Centropa interviews in fifteen European countries. A project for Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture", Vienna: Donauforum Druck, 2009.
  • "Jewish Witness to a Romanian Century: Pictures and Stories from the Centropa Interviews", Sibiu 2007.
  • "The Library of Rescued Memories: Jewish family stories from the Centropa Interviews in fifteen European countries", 2009.
  • "The Library of Rescued Memories: Pictures and Stories from the Centropa Interviews in the Czech Republic", 2009.
  • "The Moldovan Jewish Family Album", 2017.
  • "The Ukrainian Jewish Family Album", 2017.
  • "The Lost Sephardic World", 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Home | centropa.org. Retrieved November 6, 2018 .
  2. ^ Search our database of Jewish memory | centropa.org. Retrieved November 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Welcome to the website of the Trans.History project! Accessed November 6, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Homepage | Centropa Jewish Network. Retrieved November 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Welcome to the Centropa Summer Academy 2018! Retrieved November 6, 2018 (American English).