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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.

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.

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.

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.

Szilvia Csanády

Member of the Professional Advisory Team of Centropa Hungary

csanady [at] centropa.org

Szilvia Csanády teaches English at the Sashegyi Arany János Primary and Secondary School and has been appointed class teacher for the fourth time. She is a committed advocate of global education, tolerance, and project-based learning. She enjoys using Centropa videos in her English lessons to make the curriculum more colorful and varied, and has participated in several of our seminars. She has been a member of the Professional Advisory Team of Centropa Hungary since 2020.

'In the Footsteps of European Jewish Women' - traveling exhibition and peer-guide training

Bring the exhibition to your school—with peer-guide training!

Classroom Workshop – Jewish Life Stories from the 20th Century

Interactive workshops based on the life stories of Holocaust survivors are offered for students in grades 8–12. Topics such as family, love, school experiences, first jobs, survival, and rebuilding life after the Holocaust are explored through true stories that bring history closer to students.

Using personal narratives, short films, and photographs from Centropa’s archive, the workshop creates an emotional and historical connection to the past—making it both relatable and memorable.

Duration: 90 minutes
Target group: Grades 8–12

Photography Classroom Workshop – In the Footsteps of Imre Kinszki

What connects Robert Capa, László Moholy-Nagy, Martin Munkácsi, and André Kertész? All four were world-famous photographers of Hungarian Jewish descent. They left Hungary between the two world wars, built careers abroad—mostly in America—and became icons of modern photography.

And then there is Imre Kinszki, a talented contemporary of theirs who remained in Hungary and lost his life in the Holocaust.

“It's not enough to be talented; you have to be Hungarian.” – Robert Capa

Interactive Walking Tour – In the Footsteps of Imre Kinszki

And then there is Imre Kinszki, a talented contemporary of theirs who remained in Hungary and lost his life in the Holocaust.

“It's not enough to be talented; you have to be Hungarian.” – Robert Capa

Café Centropa Budapest – Meeting with Holocaust Survivors

At Centropa, we believe it is essential to stay connected with the elderly Holocaust survivors whose personal stories and family photographs form the foundation of our archive. That’s why we launched Café Centropa—a series of monthly cultural gatherings for Holocaust survivors.

We also aim to foster intergenerational dialogue. That’s why we welcome inquiries from secondary schools and teachers interested in bringing their students to meet Holocaust survivors and hear their personal stories firsthand.

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