On the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance for Victims of Genocide over the Roma and Sinti, we kindly invite you to memorial event “The Night That Silenced the Violines“. The event will take place on Friday, 31. July 2020, at 11 a.m. on the Jewish Square in Maribor (between the former synagogue and the Jewish […]

As part of the Summer Evening at Židovska, we invite you to a conversation with Marko Radmilovič. Marko Radmilovič is a renowned columnist and insightful commentator on the current affairs, a journalist, filmmaker and author of the popular radio show Notes from the swamp. His debut novel entitled Kolesar (cyclist) was recently published by Beletrina publishing house. The story

The Maribor Public Library and the Synagogue Maribor, in collaboration with the publishing house Beletrina and SNG Maribor, planned to open the exhibition Marpurgi: Between History and Literary Freedom. The expected date of announcement of the opening of the exhibition was 18th March 2020, when the presentation of the fourth reprint of the novel Marpurgi by Zlata Vokač

On 21st of April 2020, Jews celebrated Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Due to the inability to gather in public and read the names of Holocaust victims, because of the Corona virus, Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Museum, launched a campaign to publish reading of the names from home. On social media the recordings

Fifty-five years ago, the special council statement Nostra Aetate was published, which enabled a systematic dialogue between the Catholic Church and Judaism. The magazine Uniti and dialogue will dedicate the second issue of year 75 (2020), prepared in cooperation with the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor and with the support of the ARRS

The award-winning documentary The Destruction of Memory focuses on the importance of cultural heritage for humanity and the need to protect it. We kindly invite you to the screening of the movie Destruction of Memory, which will take place on Thursday, 5 March 2020, at 6 pm at the Maribor Synagogue (Židovska ulica 4). Thev award-winning documentary The Memory Destruction (directed by Tim Slade,

As part of the events Shoah – Let Us Remember 2020, dedicated to commemorating the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, we organised a rememberence ceremony. The rememberence ceremony was held on Thursday, 23 January 2020, at 18:00 at Synagogue Maribor, Židovska ulica 4. On this occasion,

On the occasion of the Slovenian Cultural Day, 8th of February, we prepared an open doors day in the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska Street 4. We prepared the following programme: From 10:00 to 15:00: Open Doors Day,  individual visits to the old synagogue and the present exhibition “Here Is Where Death Worked Itself to Death…”: the Slovenian victims of Auschwitz;

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi extermination camp, we opened a documentary exhibition titled ‘Passports for Life’. The exhibition was dedicated to Polish diplomats who issued forged passports from Latin American countries, especially Paraguay, during World War II in Bern, thus saving Jews. The

International scientific meeting Each Year One Name was this time dedicated to Erika Fürst, a survivor of Auschwitz. She was taken there as a thirteen-year-old girl in the spring of 1944 and was imprisoned in the concentration camp until its liberation on 27 January 1945. The topic of the year 2020 scientific meeting was Auschwitz