Ladies and gentlemen, on Monday, 23rd of May 2022, we kindly invite you to Židovska street in Maribor to the grand opening of the Židovska Cultural Quarter (KČŽ). OPENING PROGRAM: – At 11 a.m. the official opening of KČŽ with the presentation of cultural organizations and the unveiling of an information board – At 5 p.m. guided […]

On 26th of April Slovenia commemorates Slovenian victims of the Holocaust. On this day in 1944, the occupying forces gathered the Jews of Prekmurje in the synagogues in Murska Sobota and Lendava, and took them from there via Čakovec and Nagykanizsa to Auschwitz. Until then, the Jewish community in Prekmurje was the largest in Slovenia, but

Synagogue Maribor is participating in the fifth iteration of the #naprejvpreteklost (forward to the past) project, which this time is focused on #nočvmuzeju (night at the museum) and #plečnikvmuzeju (Plečnik in the museum). We kindly invite you to watch short informative videos, which we have prepared especially for you on this occasion. Prime dates can

On 20th of October 1164 in the castle of Marburg the border count of Styria Ottokar VI. von Traungau issued a document that is not only the first written mention or “birthday” of Maribor and therefore a municipal holiday, but also the beginning of written sources for its history. A large part of written sources for the

Documentary exhibition “Here Death Tired to Death…”: Slovenian victims of Auschwitz is visiting Velenje Castle. The exhibition by Boris Hajdinjak will open at Velenje Castle on Tuesday, 22nd of March 2022, at 6 p.m. It is supplemented with local material from the Šaleška Valley, and in its core tells the story of people from Slovenia who were taken

Marpurgi: between history and literary freedom, hosting a documentary exhibition of the Maribor Synagogue Maribor and the Maribor Library in the Piran City Library. In 2019, the Beletrina publishing house published the fourth reprint of the novel Marpurgi by Zlata Vokač Medic, and the Synagogue Maribor and the Maribor Library prepared an extensive documentary exhibition entitled Marpurgi: Between History and Literary

You are cordially invited to the online presentation of the Joint Exhibition of the Republics of the Former Yugoslavia at the Auschwitz-Birkenau National Museum and the opening of the Photographs from Auschwitz exhibition. The presentation of the project for the preparation of the Slovenian part of the exhibition will take place on Thursday, 27th of January 2022, at 11

Spletno predavanje Holokavst v Ljubljani, ki ga je predaval direktor Centra judovske kulturne dediščine Sinagoge Maribor Boris Hajdinjak v ponedeljek, 17. januarja 2022. Predavanje je potekalo na spletni aplikaciji Zoom v soorganizaciji Muzeja novejše zgodovine Slovenije. Online lecture Holocaust in Ljubljana, lectured by the director of the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, Boris

They are known as “Gypsies” and call themselves Roma or Sinti. According to the agreement of the First World Romani Congress in London 1971, we use the term Roma for all of them. Exhibition Roma on the Move is familiarizing us with the history of Roma migrations to Europe with the emphasis on Slovenia, their culture and