On 26th of April Slovenia commemorates Slovenian victims of the Holocaust. On this day in 1944, the occupying forces gathered the Jews of Prekmurje in the synagogues in Murska Sobota and Lendava, and took them from there via Čakovec and Nagykanizsa to Auschwitz. Until then, the Jewish community in Prekmurje was the largest in Slovenia, but […]

We kindly invite you to join us on Tuesday, 20th of April, and Wednesday, 21se of April 2021, at the International Scientific Symposium “Judeo-Christian Sources and Dimensions of Dialogue”. The symposium will be organized in the online platform Zoom (upon registration you must register with your name and surname) or you will also be able to follow

At the exhibition in Synagogue Maribor, we present Roman Erich Petsche as an artist and a man with a capital letter. Roman Erich Petsche was born in 1907 in Kočevje in a family of Kočevje Germans. After the First World War, the family emigrated to Austria. Petsche was awarded the title of “magister artium” at

We invite you to join us on Tuesday, 13th of April 2021, at 17:00 for the online lecture Jews in Maribor during the novel Marpurgi. Boris Hajdinjak, director of Synagogue Maribor, will give a lecture. The Jewish community in Maribor was the largest medieval community in the territory of today’s Slovenia and the centre of Judaism not only in

The Terezín Initiative Institute (Institut Terezínské Initiativy) in Prague is organizing an online reading of the names of victims of Nazi persecution this year. The reading of the names coincides with the Jewish holiday of Yom HaShoah, when in Israel at 10:00 all life stops completely for 2 minutes in memory of Holocaust victims. On

We invite you to watch the online lecture The Life and Work of Bogdan Borčić. You can watch the lecture on the Slovenian academic painter and graphic artist on Thursday, April 1, 2021, at 18:00 on our YouTube, Facebook and website. Curator and art critic Mario Berdič Codella will give the lecture. Bogdan Borčić (1926, Ljubljana–2014, Slovenj Gradec) studied at the

Dear lovers of museums and galleries! An unusual year is behind us, which presented us with many challenges. Slovenian museums and galleries were forced to close their doors several times in the past year, but despite this, they successfully carried out their work as guardians of heritage and opened their digital doors to their visitors.

We are pleased to be able to invite you to the Synagogue Maribor again on the occasion of the Slovenian cultural day. Due to the current restrictions and recommendations of the NIJZ, only individual visits are possible for the time being, and the Synagogue may accept a maximum of three visitors at a time. The staff of

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we kindly invite you to a virtual event on Wednesday, 27th of January 2021, at 11:00. The event will be dedicated to the presentation of a special issue of the magazine Edinost in dialog, which is dedicated to Judeo-Christian dialogue (more information). The magazine will be

One of the most important Slovenian artists in the field of painting and graphics, Bogdan Borčić, created a graphic folder In principio erat Dachau in 2014 on behalf of the Museum of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. In principio erat Dachau was created by Bogdan Boričić as a series of eight graphics in seven prints. At this exhibition