To close out our US State Department grant, on the 14th of May we spent an afternoon with nearly 150 teachers and students from schools all over Hungary, and we awarded prizes for best videos, lesson plans and special projects. Thanks, first of all, to the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung for helping make this event possible. Thanks also to US Embassy in Hungary who also provided some additional support,and thanks to US Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis, Israeli Ambassador Ilan Mor, and State secretary György Hölvényi for attending at this event. Thanks also to our host and partner, the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest, and special thanks to director Prof. Szabolcs Szita.
Centropa Town Hall Meeting in Budapest
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After 17 years as US Education Director of Centropa, Lauren Granite will be retiring at the end of the month September. As she sends the following message to all Centropa teachers and supporters, we'd like to thank her for her many years of dedication, knowledge, and passion. You will be greatly missed!
Centropa is proud to announce the launch of Remember. Empower. Act: Memory, Identity, and Education Against Antisemitism (REACT), a new 24-month European project bringing together intergenerational memory, Jewish youth activism, education, and artistic expression co-funded by the European Union.
Mapping Jewish memory brings teachers, university and school students together from Germany, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Serbia and Croatia to learn more about 20th century Jewish history. Our aim is to strengthen European Holocaust remembrance by mapping historically significant sites related to the Holocaust and Jewish life before and after the war.