With an introduction and epilogue narrated by Sixty Minutes correspondent Morley Safer, here is a story, produced by Brad Rothschild and Gustavo Villalonga in New York, of a Soviet Jewish...
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Haya-Lea was born in 1920 in Rovno, which then belonged to Poland. She grew up in a traditional Jewish family, joined a Zionist youth club called Hashomer Hatzair and looked...
Centropa’s most unusual film to date. Shelly Weiner and Raya Kizhnerman live in Greensboro, NC. But these two kindly grandmothers were born in the bustling city of Rivne—then in Poland...
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With more than 60,000 negatives in our archives, Centropa has created the largest photographic documentation of contemporary Jewish life ever made in this part of the world.This is one story...
About Centropa's Films
Between 2000 and 2009, Centropa conducted 1,200 interviews in 15 European countries. We never used video in those interviews; we did not focus solely on the Holocaust. Instead, we digitized 22,000 family pictures and we asked each of our respondents to tell us stories about those pictures.
We then took the most compelling stories and began turning them into short films. All the words you’ll hear in these films were taken directly from our interviews and we used some of the best actors in each country to narrate the stories.
We have also produced a series of short documentaries that explain the complexities of Central Europe, such as: how did Hungarian Jews fit into society, how did Bulgarian Jews escape deportation during the Second World War, and how did Europe’s maps change over the last 200 years. We add at least two films each year, and if you have any comments on our films, please send a note to office [at] centropa.org.