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Centropa in Ukraine

Our largest and most comprehensive project. In total, we interviewed 264 elderly Jews and digitized 2,944 of their family pictures and personal documents.

Centropa’s interviews in Ukraine were carried out between 2001 and 2006 under the guidance of Professor Leonid Finberg, director of the Institute of Jewish Studies in Kiev. Marina Karelstein worked as our coordinator, and Ella Levitskaya, Ella Orlikova and Zhanna Litinskaya were among our most productive interviewers.

Ukraine is an enormous country and the pre-Holocaust Jewish experience quite varied: from Jews born in interbellum Romania (Czernovitz) to interbellum Poland (Lvov), as well as Jews who had been born in shtetls and small towns in the east of the country and in the Black Sea port of Odessa, where most of our interviews were conducted by Natalia Fomina.

Centropa’s interviews in Ukraine were underwritten by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, The Jack Buncher Family Foundation, The Rich Foundation for Education and Welfare, The Austrian Federal Ministry of Culture, Art, and Education.

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Centropa in Ukraine

Our largest and most comprehensive project. In total, we interviewed 264 elderly Jews and digitized 2,944 of their family pictures and personal documents.

Centropa’s interviews in Ukraine were carried out between 2001 and 2006 under the guidance of Professor Leonid Finberg, director of the Institute of Jewish Studies in Kiev. Marina Karelstein worked as our coordinator, and Ella Levitskaya, Ella Orlikova and Zhanna Litinskaya were among our most productive interviewers.

Ukraine is an enormous country and the pre-Holocaust Jewish experience quite varied: from Jews born in interbellum Romania (Czernovitz) to interbellum Poland (Lvov), as well as Jews who had been born in shtetls and small towns in the east of the country and in the Black Sea port of Odessa, where most of our interviews were conducted by Natalia Fomina.

Centropa’s interviews in Ukraine were underwritten by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, The Jack Buncher Family Foundation, The Rich Foundation for Education and Welfare, The Austrian Federal Ministry of Culture, Art, and Education.

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Centropa in Turkey

The Jewish community of Turkey had never, until we began in 2005, carried out an oral history project with its oldest members. Thanks to support from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Goethe Institute, we conducted a community-wide training seminar in January 2005, which was attended by Centropa's historical advisors: Dr Cilly Kugelmann, chief curator of the Berlin Jewish Museum, Prof Misha Brumlik, director of the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt, and Margalit Bejarano, director of oral histories at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

There are around 15,000 to 18,000 Jews living in Turkey today, and all but a few live in Istanbul. This is the largest Sephardic community in the Diaspora today, and the stories we collected paint a fascinating picture of how families adapted from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to taking their place in the Kemalist Turkish republic.

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Centropa in Turkey

The Jewish community of Turkey had never, until we began in 2005, carried out an oral history project with its oldest members. Thanks to support from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Goethe Institute, we conducted a community-wide training seminar in January 2005, which was attended by Centropa's historical advisors: Dr Cilly Kugelmann, chief curator of the Berlin Jewish Museum, Prof Misha Brumlik, director of the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt, and Margalit Bejarano, director of oral histories at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

There are around 15,000 to 18,000 Jews living in Turkey today, and all but a few live in Istanbul. This is the largest Sephardic community in the Diaspora today, and the stories we collected paint a fascinating picture of how families adapted from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to taking their place in the Kemalist Turkish republic.

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Centropa in Turkey

The Jewish community of Turkey had never, until we began in 2005, carried out an oral history project with its oldest members. Thanks to support from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Goethe Institute, we conducted a community-wide training seminar in January 2005, which was attended by Centropa's historical advisors: Dr Cilly Kugelmann, chief curator of the Berlin Jewish Museum, Prof Misha Brumlik, director of the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt, and Margalit Bejarano, director of oral histories at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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