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Hungary's brief, golden age lasted from 1867 until 1914, during the half century of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Even though Budapest was badly destroyed in the Second World War and subsequently...
Personal Stories
Курт Бродман ни разказва историята на своето семейство - как неговият баща Леополд, който бил артист, се влюбил във Франци Голдщауб, която открил сред публиката. Франци произхождала от ортодоксално еврейско...
Obitelj Kalef jedna je od najstarijih beogradskih obitelji, koja ima korijene u Beogradu već više od 300 godina. Tada su nacisti ušli u Srbiji u 1941. godine... Dok su deseci...
Η Ρενέ Σαλτιέλ και ο Σόλων Μόλχο μεγάλωσαν στην μεγαλύτερη Εβραϊκή Σεφαραδίτικη κοινότητα που υπήρξε ποτέ, στην Σαλονίκη ή Θεσσαλονίκη, στην Ελλάδα του σήμερα. Τότε 90.000 Εβραίου ζούσαν εκεί και...
Jozsef, who attended both a religious and a secular school as a child, paints for us a picture of growing up in the bustling, small Jewish community of the small...
The story of a Hasidic childhood in one of the centers of Orthodox and Hasidic Judaism of Central Europe. Mukacevo (as it's called in Czech, or Munkacs in Hungarian) is...
Miklos Braun's family was middle class: his father, Zsigmond, was a a certified bookkeeper and auditor, his mother, Aranka, was a housewife. Miklos was born in 1913, his sister, Klara...
The story of a Berlin-born Jewish woman who lived through the turbulent times of Imperial Germany, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, all while growing up, falling in love...
Erna Goldmann takes us back into interwar Germany, where she grew up and met her first boyfriend at a Zionist youth club. But with the rise of National Socialism, life...
Lilli Tauber grew up in a small town in Austria, Wiener Neustadt, where her parents tended the family store. Then came 9 November 1938--the pogrom known as Kristallnacht. Her father...
Mieczyslaw Weinryb's collection of pictures and stories provide us with a fascinating glimpse of Jewish life in Poland before the war. He grew up in one of the loveliest small...
Panni Koltai was born in 1915 in the small town of Eger in Northern Hungary. Panni's father, Ferenc was a Neolog Jew, who did not observe traditions, her mother, Aranka...
In the traditional Ladino language of her Sephardic Jewish ancestors, Güler Orgun tells us how her family found a new home in the Ottoman Empire after being expelled from Spain...
Jindrich Lion, a noted journalist and author, takes us through his remarkable life--from interwar Czechoslovakia to Palestine, then back home to begin again--only to leave when the Soviets invaded his...
The classic story of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl. Max Uri was living the comfortable life of a Viennese Jewish lad when he fell for Frieda...
This is the story of an assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family living in Nagykoros. When Mariann's father lost his business, the family moved to Budapest and Mariann watched as her mother...
Katarina's story shows us what middle-class life looked like in interwar Czechoslovakia with a fascinating collection of snapshots taken in sports clubs and Jewish day schools, skiing in the Tatra...
A remarkable story of changing borders and stubborn optimism. Heinrich Nussbaum lived in the Austo-Hungarian Empire and had four sons who fought in the First World War. The empire collapsed...
When we interviewed Judit Kinszki, she told us, "All my life I've been waiting to find someone who I could tell about my father. Because he was taken from me...
Piroska Hamos was born in Balassagyarmat, a small town in North-Eastern Hungary in 1912, to the family of Armin Schultz, a gentleman's tailor. Her mother Jozefin died very young. Piroska...
This story is set in the Transylvanian city of Targu Mures, or Marosvasarhely in Hungarian. During the Second World War, northern Transylvania was occupied by the Hungarian fascists, who deported...
Kitty and Otto Suschny both grew up in Vienna, only a couple of streets away from each other, but they never met while growing up. After the Reichspogromnacht in November...
The remarkable story of Leo Luster, who grew up in Vienna’s second district in the 1930s. Leo tells us about the thriving Jewish life in Vienna during the interwar years...
Centropa interviewed nearly 100 elderly Jews in Vienna. All of them lost a brother, a mother, or a grandparent in the Holocaust. This short film is a tribute to those...
Početkom XX. st. u Hrvatskoj i Slavoniji bilo je oko 20 000 Židova, okupljenih u 27 židovskih općina, a najveće, u Zagrebu i Osijeku, imale su po 2000 članova (4%...
This is the story of one Lithuanian Jewish family, and all the things history threw at them.
Haya-Lea was born in 1920 in Rovno, which then belonged to Poland. She grew up in a traditional Jewish family, joined a Zionist youth club called Hashomer Hatzair and looked...
Herbert Lewin tells us about the best stories of his life: From his childhood in East Prussia, his life in Israel and his return to Europe after the war
After Larry Anzhel's father died in 1932, the family moved from Yambol to the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. There Larry met Rosa Varsano. In 1939 he asked her "do you want...
With an introduction and epilogue narrated by Sixty Minutes correspondent Morley Safer, here is a story, produced by Brad Rothschild and Gustavo Villalonga in New York, of a Soviet Jewish...
Slideshow
A slideshow with pictures from eight of our Jewish interview partners from Krakow.
They began life as Heinz and Manfred, growing up in the village of Hoffenheim, not far from Heidelberg. But history, wearing a brown shirt, descended upon them, and within a...