Jelena Kručičanin

Jelena Kručičanin

Centropa Coordinator for Serbia
krucicanin [at] centropa.org

Jelena Krucicanin is a teacher of Serbian language and literature at The Third Grammar School in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, and has been working as a teacher for more than 15 years. Jelena has attended many seminars and workshops on Jewish history, including Centropa seminars in Sarajevo and Skopje, as well as Centropa Summer Academy. She has been a mentor teacher in many schools and international school projects, most of them related to the topics about WW2, the Holocaust, culture of remembrance etc.

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The German Jewish Source Book. a centropa reader-volume 1, 3rd edition

This is the third edition of our German Jewish Source Book, one in a series of Centropa redares on Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe.

This volume offers the personal stories of four German Jews who describe groeing up in Weimar Germany and who fled their country after the Nazis seized power in 1933. It also provides the reader with essays and timelines on twentieth century German history.

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Jewish Stories From Lithuania. A Centropa Reader-Volume 5

In 2005 and 2006, Centropa interviewers visited twenty-six of the oldest living Jews in Lithuania and asked them to bring out their old family pictures and tell us about their lives through those pictures. This was not an oral history project specifically about the Holocaust. We asked our respondents to paint us a picture of what life was like for them during the twentieth century - from tales of grandparetns to anecdotes about great grandchildren.

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The Balkan Jewish Source Book. A Centropa Reader-Volume 3

Publication language
English

Before 1918 the South Slav lands, which were to comprise Yugoslavia, did not share a common history. Divided for centuries between Ottoman and Habsburg spheres of influence, the various peoples developed their own distinct identities and particular traditions. With 'the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes at the end of World War I, East and West met and gave birth to a complex new multinational state'.

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