Ema Panovova with Lieselotte Burger

That's me. I was blonde like my foster-father and this protected me during the Holocaust. You can also see the daughter of Kucharik, the neighbor, and my cousin Lieselotte. The photo was taken in Holic in the 1930s.

The Centropa Collection at USHMM

The Centropa archive has been acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. USHMM will soon offer a Special Collections page for Centropa.

Academics please note: USHMM can provide you with original language word-for-word transcripts and high resolution photographs. All publications should be credited: "From the Centropa Collection at the United States Memorial Museum in Washington, DC". 

Please contact collection [at] centropa.org (collection[at]centropa[dot]org).