Within the framework of the cultural and promotional programme “Split in Maribor”, a lecture on Vid Morpurgo – one of the foremost representatives of Split’s social and political life in the second half of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century – will be held at the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor. […]

Josef Schleich was not the only one who sent persecuted people from the Third Reich abroad during the time of National Socialist terror, but he did it in a big way in the years 1938-1941 with the help of a professional and well-organized smuggling organization. Thousands of Jews paid him to smuggle them across the

On Thursday, 8 February 2018, on the Slovenian cultural holiday, we kindly invite you to the Synagogue Maribor. The synagogue will be open that day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors are invited to view the current documentary exhibition Auschwitz – A Place on Earth: Auschwitz Album, and at 10:15 a.m. and 1 p.m.

On 27 January 2018, 73 years have passed since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. There is no place in the world more marked by death: during Auschwitz’s operation from 1940 to 1945, around 1.1 million people were killed there, including 1 million Jews, or one in six of the 6 million Jews killed

Elizabeta Savica Rožanc rescued the Jewish boy Tomaž Zajc during the Second World War. In 2016, the Holocaust Memorial Center Yad Vashem proclaimed Elizabeth and her parents, Emo and Miho Rožanc, Righteous Among Nations. We dedicate this year’s traditional scientific meeting Each Year One Name to the Righteous Elizabeta Horvath, born Rožanc. Renowned lecturers from Slovenia, Croatia

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as part of the Shoah – Let Us Remember 2018 project, we kindly invite you to the screening of the documentary Camps. In it, the renowned Slovenian writer Boris Pahor spoke about life in the camp, while the author of the film, Mihael Toš, also presented the themes of Nazi

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Monday, 22 January, at 6 p.m., we cordially invite you to the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska ulica 4, to the Stolen Childhood memorial event. The event is under the mentorship of prof. Alenka Miklavc prepared by the students of II. Maribor high school; they will also hold

In Slovenia, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January, is commemorated with the Shoah – Let Us Remember annual 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