Thematic websites

Centropa's new thematic website on Ukraine.

Films to watch, family stories to read, exhibitions to explore, and Photos taken at the front.

By 1944, the Nazis had murdered most of the Jews in Poland, the Baltics, Greece and Yugoslavia. Hungary, however, was allied with Nazi Germany, not occupied by it. Most of its Jewish population was still alive. The Germans did occupy Hungary in March, 1944, and hell was about to descend on Hungary’s Jews.

Learn about how Jewish eyewitnesses experienced the March 1938 “Anschluss”and the subsequent Kristallnacht pogroms of November 1938.

Life stories of Viennese Jews: their childhood in Austria’s capital, the horrors they experienced during the war, and their lives rebuilt in the post-war years.

Click here to view family photographs and their stories from 15 countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Read excerpts from Centropa interviews about what it means to be bullied – and remember those who stood up.

Learn more about the Jewry of the Balkans through family photographs and interviews collected by Centropa.

Collected Centropa stories about the Kindertransport, the work of Nicholas Winton, and the liberation of Belsen.

A civil society project connecting Ukrainians and Moldovans to their country’s Jewish history and each other.