In conjunction with the international conference Jews in Maribor and Styria in the Middle Ages, we are also preparing an accompanying event; this will also take place on Sunday, April 23, in the Maribor Synagogue. As part of this event, at 6:50 p.m., we first invite you to a short presentation by dr. Janez Premk […]

2016 marked 520 years since the Medieval expulsion of Jews from Styria and thus from Maribor. With this expulsion, the Maribor Jewish community, which was once prosperous, relatively numerous, and influential, even beyond the borders of Styria, most definitely died out. One can only speculate how the community would have developed and what the city

The Jewish Cultural Centre Ljubljana and Mini Theatre will organise the third international film festival of tolerance. Within the framework of this year’s festival edition, named the Festival House of Tolerance, some events will be organised in Maribor as well. On Wednesday, 29 March 2017, we kindly invite you to the Maribor Synagogue to screening of

The author of Schindler’s Soldier, Rasto Božič, as a sensitive follower of social events in Dolenjska, came across an interesting story of the forcibly mobilized German soldier Stanko (Stanislav) Ponikvar. He confided in him a personal story about his forced mobilization into the German army in 1942, joining the SS units and working in the

On the occasion of the Slovenian Cultural Day you are cordially invited to the open doors day in the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska Street 4. On 8 February 2017, the Synagogue will be open from 10 a. m. until 2 p. m.

The Holocaust or Shoah was one of the worst crimes against humanity that interfered in the basic values of the civilization. During the Second World War, millions of people were captured in cold, calculated and industrialized process of Nazi persecution and eventually extermination. On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day we cordially invite

Dachau, Mauthausen, Risiera di San Sabba, Jasenovac and Auschwitz are synonyms for some of the cruellest concentration camps of the Second World War. Behind the wire of these camps, several thousands of people lost their lives and today, among other things, as memorials they remind us of the necessity of respect for human rights and

The goal of the scientific meetings Each Year One Name is to publicly present the recent research findings from the field of the history of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and at the same time, life stories of the so-called Righteous Among the Nations and individuals who were victims of the Nazi destruction machine during the Second World War.

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27th of January, on behalf of organizers from all over Slovenia as part of the Shoah – Let Us Remember 2023 project, we kindly invite you to commemorative and cultural events to remember the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. The events, which start on 19th