The role of «Centrope» in overcoming the reminiscences of totalitarian regimes

Abstract

In order understand the most successful anti-totalitarian practices of the modern world, we need to learn about the achievements of civil society institutions that have been at work in the tasks of overcoming the reminiscences of totalitarian regimes. Among the latter is «Centropa» [1], a nonprofit organization that has made a significant contribution to the studies of Jewish history. In order to create and preserve a powerful narrative made of real-life stories of Jewish people, this organization has interviewed Jews from the Central and Eastern Europe, and Sephardic communities of Greece, Turkey, and the Balkans. These interviews will be used for the purposes of education of future generations about the horrors of Holocaust.