Centropa News

Centropa Hungary - Town Hall Meeting 2014

On the 23rd of May we held our annual Town Hall meeting in Budapest at the Holocaust Memorial Center. We awarded the best student video projects, the student tour guides of our traveling exhibition, other creative student projects, and the best lesson plans submitted by our teachers. We congratulate all...
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  • Centropa Seminar in Prague

    On the 16th and 17th of May 2014 Centropa orgnaized a seminar in Prague in partnership with the Jewish Museum of Prague. 33 teachers participated, we showed our Czech films, our traveling exhibition consisting of stories from the Czech Republic, and we also showed other educational materials. Teachers worked on...
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  • Survival in Sarajevo exhibition opening in the US Senate

    Since 2012, our Sarajevo exhibition has been traveling the US (another version is traveling Europe) and thanks to The Milton and Rozyln Wolf Foundation and JDC, it went on view in the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building 12-16 May 2014. Senator Ben Cardin spoke at the opening, along...
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  • Survival in Sarajevo opening in the Free Library of Philadelphia

    Centropa’s Survival in Sarajevo exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Bosniak Muslims, Serbian Orthodox and Catholic Croats stood together against hate during the Bosnian war of the 1990s. The exhibition is on display through April 2014 at theFree Public Library in Philadelphia. Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, describes how...
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    Centropa Jewish Network - Second Annual Winter Seminar

    On March 9-10, 2014, Centropa held our second professional development seminar for teachers working European Jewish schools. Twenty-seven teachers and school directors from 15 schools in 13 countries attended. The seminar was held in Frankfurt at a conference hotel and in the city’s Jewish community center. Click here to see...
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  • Screening of the Centropa Film "A Bookstore in Six Chapters"

    On Wednesday the 26th of February 2014 , at 6pm, Centropa screened its film "A bookstore in six chapters" about the Molho family at the Babylon movie theater in Berlin, Germany. This special screening included speec hes by special guests from the Foreign Ministry, the Jewish Museum Berlin and the...
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