Within the celebration of the International Museum Day, we are cordially inviting you to the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska ulica 4, to the Open doors day. On this occasion, visitors will have the opportunity to see the exhibition Stranded in Shanghai. Jewish Refugee Life through the Lens of Arthur Rothstein. Free entrance will be possible between 8 […]

On Tuesday, 7 May 2019, at 6:00 p.m., we invite you to the Synagogue Maribor (Židovska ulica 4) to the event In memoriam Amos Oz – a screening of the documentary Straight to the Summer Sun (2009). The film is about the recently deceased world-famous writer Amos Oz, who we already hosted in the Maribor

75 years ago on 26th of April mass deportations of Prekmurje Jews began. On this anniversary we will remember the Slovenian victims of Holocaust with a theatrical performance titled Estera or holiday of destinies, performed by The puppet theatre Pupilla from Lendava. Spoštovani, We invite you to the Maribor Synagogue (Židovska ulica 4) on Thursday,

We would like to invite you to a lecture by Matjaž Vidmar PhD titled Jewish exile in Shanghai from 1933 to 1945. The lecturer will speak about the fate of almost 20.000 Jewish refugees from The Third Reich to Shanghai during World War II. The lecture will take place on 24th of April 2019 at 6

Welcome to 4th Festival of Design Maribor, organised by High school of design Maribor, from 15. 4. to 18. 4. 2019. Opening of all exhibitions will take place on Jewish square (Židovski trg). The main celebration will be held on 18. 4. at 18:00 in Maribox. During the festival Maribor Synagogue will host the exhibition

We would like to invite you to the Maribor Synagogue on Thursday, 4th of April 2019 at 6 p.m. to Maja Dolinar’s REQUIEM. The event is dedicated to the author Maja Dolinar after her recent passing. We will present her posthumously published book of fairytales Štiri kraljice (The four queens). At the event Andrej Dolinar (Graz) will

From 21 to 28 March 2019, the international film festival House of Tolerance will take place in Ljubljana for the fifth time in a row. As part of the festival, various foreign and domestic films, both fiction and documentaries, are presented each time, and the film presentations are accompanied by lectures, concerts and talks. In

Jewish Refugee Life through the Lens of Arthur Rothstein After the Chrystal night (9.-10. November 1938) Shanghai was one of the few places in the world that favoured Jewish refugees. Around 18.000 European Jews found refuge there, many of them also survived the whole war there under Japanese occupation. In April 1946 the American-Jewish photographer

A lecture by Mirko Ilić. World renowned designer Mirko Ilić will hold a lecture on symbols, metaphors and dangers of right-wing extremism, racism and antisemitism.

Dear Ambassador (Querido Embaixador, 2017, 89′), a movie by Brazilian director Luiz Fernando Goulart, tells a story about Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas – the Brazilian ambassador in Paris, who saved many Jews during World War II. In 2003, the Ambassador Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas was recognised by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the Nations.