Centropa

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

An ever-expanding
library of short films,
each based on our
interviews. Watch
them online, order a
DVD, or download to
your iPod.

Centropa Magazine

Eating Around
Eastern Europe
Great recipes, stories and an eaters’ readers’ forum for you to exchange recipes and ideas.

Travels with
Ruth Ellen Gruber
No one knows the back roads and big cities of Mitteleuropa like Ruth Ellen Gruber. Click here for travel itineraries and a forum to share your own recommendations - and warnings.

E-cards
Choose from dozens of priceless old family photos from our archive to send an e-card to a friend or relative.

E-books
We have created pdf versions of more than three dozen of our most compelling interviews. Click here to download and print an illustrated biography.

The Oral History Tool Kit
Working on your own oral history project? Click here to adapt Centropa’s methodology.

Downloadable exhibitions
You can now view, then download, posters based on Centropa family pictures, and print them in your school or community center.

Centropa Student Connecting students and teachers to 20th century Jewish history
With films and online study guides, students in seven countries are exploring Jewish history in ways that have never been done before. Then we send them out to photograph synagogues and Jewish sites in their towns, upload them to our site, where they share them with each other.
EUROPEAN SCHOOLS	US SCHOOLS

Add Your Family Pictures
Got a picture from "the old country? Or does your family still live there? Here's a program to connect Jewish families all over the world through an uploadable Jewish heritage project.