Preserving Jewish Memory. Bringing history to life.

  • Anna Lanota: a Jewish partisan in Poland

    Watch our new short film about a remarkable woman escaping the ghetto and joining the partisans to fight against the nazis.

  • The Holocaust in Ukraine: A Graphic Novel

    A graphic novel about two Jewish girls, who grew up in Rivne, now part of Ukraine. They narrate their childhood during the war, their lives in hiding, and their return several decades later, when they visit the descendants of the brave farmers who took them in and sheltered them during the war.

  • A Message From The Future: Bosnia Meets Ukraine

    A war in Ukraine now. Survivors of the siege of Sarajevo then. Six Bosnians have a message of hope for Ukrainians.

    Official selection in five international film festivals. Winner of Best Short Documentary in two of them.

  • A UKRAINIAN JEWISH CENTURY

    There’s never been a podcast season like this: 12 of Britain’s finest character actors read excerpts from Centropa’s Ukrainian interviews. Edward Serotta hosts the season as he walks the streets of Odesa, Kyiv and Lviv. 

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.