Maximilian von Schoeler 
The application deadline for our international Trans.History seminar in Lviv on “Civil Society, Social Media and Jewish History in Ukraine in the 20th Century” has ended!
Thanks for the overwhelming interest!!
We are in the process reviewing the applications and will inform the participants any time soon!
So stay tuned!
We have decided! It’s been a tough call! We have reviewed, discussed, and squabbled but have finally agreed on this year’s awardees!
First Prize goes to:
Lada Nuzhna
Galina Untu
Second Prize goes to:
Liudmila Olenenko
Irina Mershynets
Third Prize goes to:
Capcelea Olesea
Marina Pysanets
Honorable Mention Award goes to:
Nicoleta Gutu
Lidumila Olenenko
Elena Bilchenko
Congratulations to the winners and our utmost admiration to all the participants, who did such an awesome job – every single one of you is great!
We will officially present the awarded projects during our Trans.History seminar in Lviv on April 5, 2018, and in the competition section of our website.
We recently uploaded the Ukrainian translation of the biographies of Grigoriy Fihtman and Israel Gliazer!
We are continuing to work on keeping the homepage up to date regularly.
We are happy to announce that application for our international Trans.History seminar on “Civil Society, Social Media and Jewish History in Ukraine in the 20th Century” is now open!
The seminar will take place in Lviv from April 3 – 5, 2018 and, together with our local partners Інститут Суспільних Ініціатив / Society Initiatives Institute, we invite educators, community activists, NGO representatives, and journalists from the Ukraine to apply via the SII website now.
Application deadline is February 25, 2018.
Travel expenses, accommodation and meals are covered.
The seminar is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.
We already received numerous project submission for our Centropa 2017/2018 international Youth Competition and look through them with great curiosity and exitement!
And we want more of that! Thus we decided to extend the submission deadline!
So you still can submit your projects on the topic of Jewish history or the development of civil society in one of the four categories (Movies, Graphic stories, Photo stories or Societal issues) until February 12, 2018!
You can find the Call for Entries with all important information here or contact us if you have any questions.
Be creative, get active!
On November 16, 2017 Centropa’s new exhibition “The Moldovan Jewish Family Album” was officially opened in Chisinau. It can still be seen at Muzeul Naţional de Etnografie şi Istorie Naturală until December 15.
You can find a peek preview of our exhibition here.
If you are interested in bringing “The Moldovan Jewish Family Album” to your town, check out our exhibition calendar and feel free to contact us!
Short informations and photographic impressions of our recent seminars in Mannheim, Germany (September 8-11) and Chisinau, Moldova (November 15-17) are now available in English, Romanian and Russian in our Seminars section.
We are delighted to announce the official opening of the new Centropa exhibition “The Moldova Jewish Family Album” at Muzeul Naţional de Etnografie şi Istorie Naturală in Chisinau on November 16, 2017.
The exhibition will be inaugurated within the framework of our three-day Trans.History seminar for 50 Moldovan, Ukrainian and German educators on the issue of “Civil Society, Social Media and 20th Century Jewish History in Moldova” in Chisinau from November 15 to November 17.
We’ll keep you updated on the seminar on our Trans.History website and on Facebook.