“Tonight’s journey will not be pleasant, on the short literary road, there will be no laughter and no satisfaction, just an insight of what we experienced, what we went through…” …This is a time that less and less people remember, as fewer and fewer contemporaries of the former Fascism, Nazism and later Communism regimes remain […]

»Systematic destruction of people, either due to their different view of life and religion or due to their racial or national origin, is unfortunately still a dreadful topical issue in today’s world. In Slađana Matić Trstenjak’s paintings, holocaust is symbolically manifested like soulless golem, threateningly rising like an enormous gloomy mountain at the background of

In 1953, the Israeli parliament established Yad Vashem, a memorial museum for the victims of the Holocaust, within the framework of which ten years later the Commission to Proclaim the Righteous Among the Nations was established. Recognitions in the form of medals and documents testify to the courage of persons, exclusively non-Jews, who risked their

Vsakoletna znanstvena srečanja, organizirana ob mednarodnem dnevu spomina na žrtve holokavsta, so namenjena predstavitvi najnovejših izsledkov raziskav s področja zgodovine holokavsta in antisemitizma. Na letošnjem srečanju, posvečenem mariborskemu predvojnemu judovskemu podjetniku Marku Rosnerju, bo mogoče prisluhniti predavanjem priznanih domačih in tujih zgodovinarjev in raziskovalcev, med njimi prof. Borisu Hajdinjaku, prof. Romanu Mirniku, dr. Marjanu Tošu,

On 27 January, it has been exactly 70 years since the liberation of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp that finally unveiled the horrible fate of Jews and many members of various ethnic, religious and political groups, as well as homosexuals and physically and mentally challenged people who were unacceptable for the Nazi regime during the

Maribor’s history has been marked by many individuals who, in different periods, significantly co-shaped the city’s life and pulse. One of them was doctor Klara Kukovec, the first woman with a private medical practice in the city. Klara was born as Chaya Lea Doktor in 1883 in Kherson, today’s Ukraine. Already in her early childhood,

Between 1939 and 1945, the Nazis killed almost 500,000 Roma and Sinti, according to more recent estimates, even around 600,000. Heinrich Himmler, one of the main organizers and executors of the Nazi genocide, tirelessly devised anti-Roma laws and decrees for the mass extermination of these ethnic groups, and on 15 November 1943, he officially equated

This Merry Day of Culture represents a traditional annual cultural manifestation, with which we commemorate the birth of one of the most famous Slovenian poets – France Prešern. On 3 December cultural institutions invite visitors to free tours of plays, exhibitions and concerts, lectures, guided tours, workshops and various other cultural events. This year we

The latest Cvetka Hojnik’s independent exhibition EN SOF at the Maribor Synagogue represents a multi-dimensional upgrade of her previous opus, for it is a project in the frame of her master thesis, designed as an homage to Lendava Jews, referring to the mystical tradition of Kabbalah. Without any doubt, Cvetka Hojnik represents a unique phenomenon

The CJCH Synagogue Maribor cordially invites to the presentation of the book DINING WITH PREKMURJE JEWS – A COOKBOOK AFTER SCRIPTURE (Za mizo s prekmurskimi Židi – kuharica po svetopisemskih pravilih) by the author Bojan Zadravec on Thursday, 23 October 2014, at 6 p.m. at Židovska ulica 4, Maribor. All the recipes in the book have been part of