Lauren Granite

Lauren Granite

US Education Director
granite [at] centropa.org

Dr. Lauren Granite directs our US educational programs. Before joining the Centropa staff, she spent more than a dozen years teaching Jewish history in colleges, Jewish day schools and congregational schools.  As a teacher, Lauren created our first cross-cultural projects with Berlin and Budapest.

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Edward Serotta

Edward Serotta

Founding Director
serotta [at] centropa.org

Edward Serotta is a journalist, photographer and filmmaker specializing in Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Edward has worked in Central Europe since 1985. Between 1996 and 1999, he produced three films for ABC News Nightline. Edward has published three books - Out of the Shadows, Survival in Sarajevo and Jews, Germany, Memory. He has contributed to Time Magazine, The L.A.Times, The Washington Post, and other outlets. Ed founded Centropa in 2000.

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Alabama Holocaust Education Center
South Carolina Council on the Holocaust
The Florida Holocaust Museum
Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest NJ
inSIGHT
Haver Srbija
Vódli Zsolt

Zsolt Vódli

Member of the Professional Advisory Team of Centropa Hungary
vodli [at] centropa.org

Zsolt István Vódli is a secondary school teacher specializing in history, Hungarian language and literature, film and media culture, and English language and culture. He was born in Mohács and grew up in the streets of the former Jewish ghetto, where Miklós Radnóti was imprisoned. It is also where Hungarians, Serbs, Croats, Swabians, Jews, and Roma lived together and still live today. It is where a multi-ethnic, multicultural environment was completely natural for him, just like in Sopron, where he now lives. This diversity is what brought him to Centropa.

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Kardos Éva

Éva Kardos

Member of the Professional Advisory Team of Centropa Hungary
kardos [at] centropa.org

Éva Kardos has been teaching history, social studies, and German at the Alternative Economics High School since 1996, and has also been working as a mentor since 1997. Since the beginning of her career, she has been deeply involved in studying the history, traditions, and situation of minorities. Within this field, she is particularly interested in Jewish history, the events of the Holocaust, and their consequences and effects that are still felt today. She works at the Hannah Arendt Association and as an external consultant for the Haver Foundation.

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