There is no place in the world more marked by the Holocaust than the Auschwitz concentration camp: during its operation, from May 1940 to January 1945, around 1.3 million people were sent there. In total, about 1.1 million people were killed in Auschwitz, of which 960,000 were Jews, or nearly one in six of the […]

On the evening of 2nd of August 1944, the Nazis closed down Sector BIIe or “Zigeunerlager” (“Gypsy camp”) at Auschwitz-Birkenau and brutally murdered nearly three thousand Sinti and Roma in the gas chambers in a single night. On the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide against Roma and

The Jewish History of Maribor exhibition will be on display at Trg Leona Štuklja in Maribor from 15th of July to 16th of August 2022. The exhibition in 22 panels presents the history of the Jews in Maribor from their settlement to the present day. The first half of the exhibition deals with the period of the Middle Ages,

On 4th of July 2022 we installed new Stolpersteine in Šalovci and Lendava. In Šalovci at the address Šalovci 161, the members of the Schönauer family got the Stolpersteine: Julij, Elizabeta, Ladislav, and Helena. In Lendava, at the Trgu ljudske pravice 11 Stolpersteine were received by the Deutsch family: Aladar, Elizabeta and Judita. Also in Lendava,

Vljudno vabljeni! The Židovska Cultural Quarter kindly invites you to Summer Evening at Židovska on Saturday, 18th of June 2022! Cultural institutions operating in the area of ​​Židovska ulica – GT22, Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, Maribor Photo Club and Stolp Photo Gallery, Maribor Association of Fine Artists and DLUM Gallery, and Youth Cultural Center and Media

In the lobby of the Museum of Recent History Celje, a new guest exhibition “Here Is Where Death Worked Itself To Death…”: Slovenian Victims of Auschwitz is on display from 7th of June 2022. Students of the First Gymnasium in Celje took part in the cultural program. After greetings and speeches, the exhibition was presented by the author Boris Hajdinjak,

The Jazz ‘ma mlade festival returns to the Jewish Square. The Jazz ‘ma mlade 2022 music festival will take place on the first three Fridays in June in the Židovska Cultural Quarter, and part of the accompanying program will also take place in the Synagogue Maribor. In addition to the music program, in cooperation with the surrounding galleries

We are pleased to inform you that the Synagogue Maribor is reopened from 1st of June 2022 at normal working hours, from Monday to Friday, from 8:00 to 16:00, entrance fee 1 €. After eight months of closure, we are reopening the Synagogue Maribor. Since October 2021, urgent renovation works have been carried out on the

With great pleasure, after a break of a few months, which was the result of renovation work on the building of the former synagogue, we invite you again to the Synagogue Maribor on Židovska ulica 4 in Maribor. The Synagogue will officially reopen its doors to the public with the opening of the visiting exhibition of the Jewish Museum Vienna “Lady

We invite you to the international scientific meeting Each Year One Name, which this time will be dedicated to the Kočevje Righteous Among the Nations Roman Erich Petsche. The subtitle of this year’s meeting is Auschwitz and the area of ​​former Yugoslavia II. The scientific meeting will be followed by a round table Block 17: Joint Museum Exhibition of