Jewish cemetery i.e. “židovski cintor” (expression in dialect of the Prekmurje region), as we have named our literary-musical evening, is a selection of several worldwide Jewish anthologies. The first one, entitled “Jewish Anthology in Polish”, was published in 1980 in London and includes poetry of Polish Jews from 1868–1968. Selection and data for the anthology was […]

»Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the

Each year on the 8th of February, in honour of the Slovene national poet France Prešeren, we celebrate the Prešeren Day, with which we commemorate the poet’s life and work. On this occasion Slovene museums, galleries and other cultural institutions open their doors to public with a desire for a wider public to get a

Who is Jewish? What is individual Judaism about? Who was a Jew since always and who decided to become a Jew later? Austrian photographer Peter Rigaud tried to find the answers on all those questions in his series of portraits of Viennese Jews that were faced with questions about Jewish identity. The photographer made the

Due to our effort for a complete scientific presentation of the Holocaust and within the project Shoah – Let Us Remember 2013, we are holding a science meeting named Each Year One Name. The intention of this meeting is to present the latest researches of respectable scientists, such as historians, sociologists and anthropologist, with special

Slavko Goldstein – historian, politic, publicist, publisher, journalist and screenwriter is certainly one of the most interesting and influential personalities of Croatian public life. His life story is exceptional. We are holding a meeting with Slavko Goldstein (1928) within the project Shoah – Let Us Remember 2013, which is a project that helps us commemorate the

On 1st November 2005 the UN General Assembly has declared the 27th January as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. For the deminishing generations of survivors’ sakes it is the duty of present generations and the historiography to prevent memory loss about one of the darkest sides of 20th century history. Despite the small size of

August 25th, 1992, marked the destruction of Sarajevo’s most famous landmark of the Austro-Hungarian era. The s. c. Vijećnica served as the National University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1947. On August 25th, the smoke from the grenades launched by the aggressor destroyed more than 90% of the library material, with over 2 million

The Kohnstein and Singer families, until recently forgotten names of the Holocaust victims, are returning to the public memory of the Maribor City. Their presence in the form of stumbling stones should symbolically end the silence and awake the beginning of permanent memory; when stumbling against their names (written on the stones) you shall remember

For quite some time, Ruža Klein Meštrović was known to the expert and lay public as the first wife of Ivan Meštrović, the famous Croatian sculptor. Her part in forming Meštrović’s artistic expression had been acknowledged, but it was only a few years back, when in 2009 the exhibition entitled “Ruža Klein Meštrović – The