Old Family Photos Bring Polish History Exhibit to Life

Posted by admin on Oct 1, 2010

American photographer and filmmaker Edward Serotta and two historians, Eszter Andor and Dora Sardi, started Centropa, a Jewish historical institute that spent eight years training young historians in 15 European countries to create a different sort of oral history project.

Rather than interview Central Europe’s last living Holocaust survivors on video, Centropa has digitized more than 20,000 of their family photos (while also interviewing them).

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