Explore Jewish Biographies in Belarus and Russia through our films
A remarkable story of survival, resistance and resilience. Mark Epstein was still a teenager when the infamous 900 day siege of Leningrad began in 1941.
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
This film was created by the “Internationales Bildungs- und Begegnungswerk”, “Internationale Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte Johannes Rau” in Minsk, Geschichtswerkstatt Leonid Levin
Over 450,000 Jews served in the Soviet Army during the Second World War, or as it is referred to in Russia, The Great Patriotic War.
In 2006, Vera Postavinskaya, one of our most insightful interviewers, visited Elena Drapkina in her St Petersburg apartment. Then 82 years old, Mrs Drapkina spent
Pamjat is Centropa’s education program on 20th century Jewish history in Belarus & Russia.
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