Centropa
The Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation is an international team of more than 100 historians, filmmakers, web designers, journalists, educators and Jewish community activists.
Centropa is the Internet name for The Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, which is registered as a non-profit corporation in the US (Federal Tax ID 58-1970-134), as a Verein in Austria (ZVR: 702944918) and as a KHT and a foundation in Hungary (KHT/Cg: 01-14-000444). Our principal offices are in Vienna and Budapest.
We are an international team of more than 100 historians, filmmakers, web designers, journalists, educators and Jewish community activists (most of us work part-time; a dozen are employed full-time).
Since the inception of our signature project, Jewish Witness to a European Century in early 2000, our initial goal has been to preserve 1,500 life histories and digitize 25,000 privately-held family photographs in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Moldavia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Turkey. Rather than focus on how Jews were murdered during the Shoah, Jewish Witness to a European Century is much more about the way they lived, and instead of using video in our interviews, we digitize their family pictures while asking them to tell us all about the people in those snapshots.
The concept is to provide these last witnesses to a world destroyed with a platform for them to share their memories of an entire century: from the small comedies of everyday life to the great tragedies that befell them. Everything is preserved in a keyworded, searchable database that is accessible from every computer in the world with Internet access.
www.centropa.org
We are an international team of more than 100 historians, filmmakers, web designers, journalists, educators and Jewish community activists (most of us work part-time; a dozen are employed full-time).
Since the inception of our signature project, Jewish Witness to a European Century in early 2000, our initial goal has been to preserve 1,500 life histories and digitize 25,000 privately-held family photographs in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Moldavia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Turkey. Rather than focus on how Jews were murdered during the Shoah, Jewish Witness to a European Century is much more about the way they lived, and instead of using video in our interviews, we digitize their family pictures while asking them to tell us all about the people in those snapshots.
The concept is to provide these last witnesses to a world destroyed with a platform for them to share their memories of an entire century: from the small comedies of everyday life to the great tragedies that befell them. Everything is preserved in a keyworded, searchable database that is accessible from every computer in the world with Internet access.
www.centropa.org
As the main topic for the presentation at the Annual Meeting of AEMI (29 September-3 October 2010, Bilbao, Spain) “Migration Studies and ICTs” has been proposed for the call of papers. Deadline: May 25, 2010.
The Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network’s Second Annual Conference, Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes will take place on Friday 21 May at the British Library Conference Centre in London and will bring together academics, museum professionals, librarians and archivists. Booking deadline: Friday 14th May.
