Fifty-five years ago, the special council statement Nostra Aetate was published, which enabled a systematic dialogue between the Catholic Church and Judaism. The magazine Uniti and dialogue will dedicate the second issue of year 75 (2020), prepared in cooperation with the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor and with the support of the ARRS […]

The award-winning documentary The Destruction of Memory focuses on the importance of cultural heritage for humanity and the need to protect it. We kindly invite you to the screening of the movie Destruction of Memory, which will take place on Thursday, 5 March 2020, at 6 pm at the Maribor Synagogue (Židovska ulica 4). Thev award-winning documentary The Memory Destruction (directed by Tim Slade,

As part of the events Shoah – Let Us Remember 2020, dedicated to commemorating the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, we organised a rememberence ceremony. The rememberence ceremony was held on Thursday, 23 January 2020, at 18:00 at Synagogue Maribor, Židovska ulica 4. On this occasion,

On the occasion of the Slovenian Cultural Day, 8th of February, we prepared an open doors day in the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska Street 4. We prepared the following programme: From 10:00 to 15:00: Open Doors Day,  individual visits to the old synagogue and the present exhibition “Here Is Where Death Worked Itself to Death…”: the Slovenian victims of Auschwitz;

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi extermination camp, we opened a documentary exhibition titled ‘Passports for Life’. The exhibition was dedicated to Polish diplomats who issued forged passports from Latin American countries, especially Paraguay, during World War II in Bern, thus saving Jews. The

International scientific meeting Each Year One Name was this time dedicated to Erika Fürst, a survivor of Auschwitz. She was taken there as a thirteen-year-old girl in the spring of 1944 and was imprisoned in the concentration camp until its liberation on 27 January 1945. The topic of the year 2020 scientific meeting was Auschwitz

In Slovenia, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January, is commemorated with the Shoah – Let Us Rememberannual project. Within the framework of the project, which includes numerous cultural, museum, research and educational institutions, we prepare exhibitions, experts meetings and several cultural events. The Holocaust was one of the worst crimes against humanity. In it, about 6

Call for Papers for a special issue of Unity and Dialogue and an International Scientific Conference Jewish-Christian Sources and Dimensions of Dialogue Unity and Dialogue,Journal for Ecumenical Theology and Interreligious Dialogue, will – in collaboration with Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor and with the support of the ARRS Programme Jewish-Christian Sources and Dimensions

Ciril Horjak has belonged among most recognizable authors of Slovenian caricature and comic strip art for several years. He is also well known as a long-standing co-worker of the Večer newspaper’s Saturday supplement with the title V soboto (On Saturday). At the retrospective exhibition, his portrait caricatures and title pages, which have adorned the Večer newspaper’s Saturday supplement for

Unit in Maribor, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, and Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor invite you to the opening of the exhibition From the desert to the table. The Biblical Archeological Collection of the Theological Library in Maribor is a unique collection in Slovenia. The collection mainly includes pottery and objects connected to everyday life and