The 2021 Centropa Summer Academy
Experience Europe and history from your home—or vacation spot—through city drone tours, speakers, cross-cultural exchanges, Centropa resources,
and virtual visits to museums and historic sites.
We're offering educators two tracks this summer
6-15 July: online presentations and self-directed learning
Four 2-hour online sessions, beginning at
8am PDT/11am EDT/5pm CET/6pm IDT
Click here to see our Virtual CSA program
1-21 July, including the history sessions
In these workshops, teachers take the content from the history sessions, match it with Centropa's personal stories, and—working with teachers from other countries—create dynamic projects for your students.
Click here to see our Border Jumping Program Schedule
all sessions begin
8am PDT/11am EDT/5pm CET/6pm IDT
This year year you'll engage with historians, foundation heads and museum directors from Germany, Austria, Greece, Serbia and Israel
Hannah Lessing
Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
Vienna
Edyta Gawron
Historian, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Michael Brenner
Abenshohn Chair in Israel Studies and Director, Center for Israel Studies, American University, Washington, DC
Tomasz Cebulski
Researcher, owner of Polin Travel, guide and genealogy service in Poland
Leon Saltiel
Historian, member of Greece's delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
Eliezer Papo
Senior Lecturer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev
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Edna Friedberg
Historian and Senior Program Curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Georgiy Kasianov
Head, Department of Contemporary History and Politics,
Institute of the History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences
Shana Penn
Executive Director of Taube Philanthropies and a scholar-in-residence at the Graduate Theological Union’s Center for Jewish Studies, in Berkeley
Milovan Pisarri
Director of the Center for Public History
Belgrade
Martin Dean
Historical Researcher, Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
Jakub Nowakowski
Director, The Galicia Jewish Museum
Krakow
This year's Centropa Summer Academy Program:
add to your knowledge base, expand your skill set
This year’s CSA will consist of:
four history sessions, each focusing on four turning points in 20th century European history and their impact on Jews in Berlin and Vienna, Krakow, Belgrade and Thessaloniki, and Kyiv;
the Border Jumping Program (BJP): four hands-on work sessions, designed for educators interested in turning the history session content into projects for their students. Participants will attend an orientation, all four history sessions, one of two workshops, and a final meeting to present their lessons. See below for dates.
Tuesday, July 6: Germany and Austria on the eve of the Holocaust: 1933-1938
17:00 CET
Welcome remarks
17:20 CET
Ten things you need to know about German Jewry and Austrian Jews.
Hosted by Edward Serotta + Q&A
17.50 CET
German-Jewish Responses to the Rise of Hitler.
Keynote lecture by Prof. Michael Brenner + Q&A
18:45 CET
Teacher Highlight: Using Centropa's resources related to today's topic, including our project website on November 1938.
19:00 CET
Wrap up
19:15 CET
End of the session.
Thursday, July 8: Poland: The German invasion of Poland in 1939 and the Final Solution
17:00 CET
Virtual tour of Centropa's new exhibition at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow. Presentation of Centropa's Jewish Krakow App and website based on the biography of Tosia Silberring. Readings of Centropa stories taken from our interviews in Poland.
17:15 CET
A drone tour of Krakow by Dr Tomasz Cebulski on the history of Krakow before, during, and after World War II.
+ Q&A
17:40 CET
Polish-Jewish relations - past and present
A roundtable discussion with Edyta Gawron, Jakub Nowakowski and Shana Penn + Q&A
18:20 CET
Presentation on The Final Solution by representative of the Memorial and Educational Site - House of the
Wannsee Conference + Q&A
19:00 CET
Teacher highlight: Using Centropa’s Polish resources to teach about German-occupied Poland during World War II.
19:10 CET
Wrap up.
19:15 CET
End of session.
Tuesday, July 13: The destruction of Sephardic Jewry in the Balkans during World War II
17:00 CET
Welcome remarks
17:05 CET
Centropa Moment
17:15 CET
The history of Balkan Sephardim
Historical lecture by Dr. Eliezer Papo + Q&A
17:50 CET
Presentation on the Staro Sajmiste concentration camp by Milovan Pisarri - 6 April, 1941, marked the German invasion of Yugoslavia and then Greece. We will virtually visit Belgrade's infamous concentration camp Staro Sajmiste, where Jews, Roma, and other persecuted minorities were detained and later murdered.
+ Q&A
18:20 CET
The destruction of Salonika Jewry
Historical lecture by Prof. Dr. Leon Saltiel + Q&A
19:05 CET
Teacher highlight: Presentation of projects with Serbian students on how Centropa's stories from Belgrade are used in Serbian Holocaust Education.
19:15 CET
End of the session.
Thursday, July 15: Operation Barbarossa & the Final Solution on German-occupied territory
17:00 CET
Introductory remarks
Readings from Centropa interviews on June 22, 1941, when Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Soviet Union.
17:15 CET
Presentation by Martin Dean on Babyn Yar and the Holocaust by bullets.
17:40 CET
Alex Denisenko will speak on the Holocaust in what is today Western Ukraine, and focus on local sites such as the Janowska concentration camp, established in September 1941 in Lviv.
18:10 CET
Centropa Moment
18:15 CET
The Politics of Memory
A panel discussion with Georgyi Kasianov, Hannah Lessing, and Tomasz Cebulski, moderated by Edna Friedberg (USHMM)
19:15 CET
End of the session.
Border Jumping Program Schedule
Please note: The history sessions listed above are a key part of the Border Jumping Program.
The sessions listed below are designed to help you bring that history to life for your students.
All Border Jumping Sessions begin
8am PDT/11am EDT/5pm CET/6pm IDT
Thursday, July 1: Orientation
In this meeting, we will kick off the Border Jumping Program with an ice breaker, presentations of last year's successful Border Jumping projects by the teachers who created them, an overview of Centropa's resources for you to use as you design your projects, and a review the Border Jumping Program expectations and guidelines. If time permits, participants will meet with partners to begin designing projects.
Friday, July 9 - PD
Workshop for teachers who are creating lessons on one of the first two history session topics, either "Germany and Austria on the eve of the Holocaust: 1933-1938" or "Poland: The German invasion of 1939 and the Final Solution."
Friday, July 16 - PD
Workshop for teachers who chose "The Destruction of Sephardic Jewry in the Balkans during World War II" or "Operation Barbarossa and the Final Solution on German-occupied territory"
Wednesday, July 21
Final meeting and presentations of lesson plans
Deadlines for registering:
Border Jumping Program: June 25, 2021
Main program: July 5, 2021
Questions?
Email Lauren Granite at granite@centropa.org or Bori Pal at pal@centropa.org.