2025 Centropa Summer Academy Website
Check out our website for this year's Centropa Summer Academy.
Israelis are sharing their stories
In Hebrew and in English, we have created a website for our teachers, students and friends in Israel to share their stories of all they have been through. At Centropa: we stand with Israel.
Centropa wins Simon Wiesenthal prize
Centropa has been awarded the "Award for civic engagement to educate the public about the Holocaust" at the ceremony for the 2023 Simon Wiesenthal prize.
The Holocaust in Ukraine: A Graphic Novel
A graphic novel about two Jewish girls, who grew up in Rivne, now part of Ukraine.
Jewish Witness to a European Century
Explore our archive of 1,230 interviews conducted in 15 European countries and view 25,664 family pictures.
Centropa in Education
More than a thousand teachers use our oral history archive to teach everything from social studies to literature, foreign language to photography, filmmaking to art.
Award winning films that bring history to life through documentaries and personal stories.
We are taking some of our most compelling interviews and turning them into audio theatre productions.
Café Centropa: our social club for the Holocaust survivors we've interviewed.
Dozens of mouth-watering recipes we've collected along with great ideas from Jayne Cohen and others. From classic Ashkenazi recipes to recipes from Turkish Jewish kitchens
Over 2,000 family photographs and 150 interviews conducted in Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece and Turkey
Help make possible our programs for holocaust survivors, teachers in Ukraine or support our day-to-day operations.
About Centropa
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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).