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.

The Hungarian Jewish Source Book is the sixth in a series of Centropa readers on 20th century Jewish communities of Central and Eastern Europe.

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.

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'.