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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Konrad Adenauer Foundation
The Black Sea Trust

Common Ground Educational Program

One of the greatest challenges currently facing the Hungarian education system is the negative impact of natural segregation processes embedded within it. This is a complex issue, and our initiative aims to create opportunities for teachers—Roma and non-Roma, Jewish and non-Jewish, rural and urban, as well as from both disadvantaged and elite educational institutions—to implement projects that help bring the youngest generation closer together.

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The Elie Wiesel Study Tour

The Elie Wiesel Study Tour: Explore the Past. Shape the Future!
This project was launched in the 75th year of the liberation of Auschwitz, in cooperation with American Councils Hungary, Romania, and Moldova, and with the support of the U.S. Embassy. The Centropa Foundation participated as a project partner. A total of 30 university students took part—20 from Romania, 5 from Hungary, and 5 from Moldova.

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Crocus Project – Flowers Against Violence

The Crocus Project is a successful European remembrance program that has been running for several years, engaging more than 100,000 young people and teachers from 12 countries. . In Hungary, the project is organized by the Holocaust Education Ireland and the Szembenézés Alapítvány (Reckoning Foundation) with the support of the ELTE PPK Institute of Education and the Hungarian Association for Progressive Education, co-funded by the European Union.

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Human Rights Intitute
KIGA