Courtyard of Sarajevo Synagogue

Edward Serotta

1988

Aerial photograph of courtyard with large tree featuring people seated at tables socializing.
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Edward Serotta

b. 1949

Edward Serotta is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker who was born in Savannah, Georgia. He specializes in Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe, and since 1991 has been the director of the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation (Centropa, www.centropa.org), a not-for-profit organization in Vienna that uses advanced technologies to preserve Jewish memory. He is the author of three books, Out of the Shadows (1991), Survival in Sarajevo (1995), and Jews, Germany, Memory (1996), which have had accompanying exhibitions.

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