Centropa Student is the multi-media educational program of Centropa.  We are currently working in more than 70 schools in 12 countries. Our goal is to provide a fresh and innovative approach to teaching 20th Century European-Jewish history. Our program is based on 1250 biographies and more than 20.000 old familiy photos which Centropa's interview teams have collected and put on the web between 2000 and 2008. From selected stories, we have produced a collection of more than 20 personal short films about European-Jewish family stories. You can access all of our photos and English-language biographies from our database .

Since 2006, Centropa Student has been tested with focus groups in US and Hungarian schools. Since then our website has been expanded to include online Study Guides as well as classroom-tested teaching materials. We have created a public section for teaching material as well as a password-protection for registered educators, from which you can access all of our teaching materials, including lesson plans and exercises as well as exams. The registration for our website is completely free!

We also developed an interactive page called Border Jumping for classes to upload their own photos, videos and texts and share these projects with students all over the world.

Our pilot teachers are:

Cynthia Peterman and Dr. Lauren Granite, Charles E. Smith School in Washington, D.C.
Yoni Kadden, Gann Academy in Boston
Beth Brown, Weber School in Atlanta
Jill Quigley, Jewish Academy of San Diego
Leslie Rosen, Shoshana S. Cardin Jewish Community High School in Baltimore
Jon Cassie and Rabbi Neal Scheindlin, Milken School in Los Angeles
Dr. Neil Kramer, New Jewish Community High School in Los Angeles
Renee Ghert-Zand, San Francisco Jewish Board of Education

Our Educational coordinator for schools in the EU are:

Dora Sardi, Budapest (Hungary)
Pavla Neuner, Prague (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
Anca Ciuciu, Bucharest (Romania)
Dr. Albena Taneva, Sofia (Bulgaria)

Centropa's education program is directed by Fabian Ruehle from our office in Vienna, Austria. Fabian also coordinates Centropa's educational programs for the US, Austria and Germany. For further information please email us.