From 21 to 28 March 2019, the international film festival House of Tolerance will take place in Ljubljana for the fifth time in a row. As part of the festival, various foreign and domestic films, both fiction and documentaries, are presented each time, and the film presentations are accompanied by lectures, concerts and talks. In […]

Jewish Refugee Life through the Lens of Arthur Rothstein After the Chrystal night (9.-10. November 1938) Shanghai was one of the few places in the world that favoured Jewish refugees. Around 18.000 European Jews found refuge there, many of them also survived the whole war there under Japanese occupation. In April 1946 the American-Jewish photographer

A lecture by Mirko Ilić. World renowned designer Mirko Ilić will hold a lecture on symbols, metaphors and dangers of right-wing extremism, racism and antisemitism.

Dear Ambassador (Querido Embaixador, 2017, 89′), a movie by Brazilian director Luiz Fernando Goulart, tells a story about Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas – the Brazilian ambassador in Paris, who saved many Jews during World War II. In 2003, the Ambassador Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas was recognised by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the Nations.

A restored silent film with live music. A restored silent film from the 1920s tells the story of a young man from a Jewish family who wants to become an actor at the Viennese Burgtheater. The film will be accompanied by live music. The soloists are from New York.

Publishing company Aristej and Maribor Synagogue invite you to the presentation of a book titled “A religious glossary for young people” (Original: Religijski pojmovnik za mlade) and a talk with its author Gorazd Andrejč. The event will be held in the Maribor Synagogue (Židovska ulica 4) on 20th of March at 6 p. m..

One of the biggest modern literary voice of Israel come to Maribor during his visit to Slovenia. Amir or is considered the leading poet and writer in his home country. He published 14 poem collections, which were translated to 45 languages. The conversation will be led by Darka Tancer-Kajnih and Tjaša Šket will be translating

Sinagoga Maribor is hosting a documentary exhibition Sobibor. On 14 October 1946 more than 400 prisoners, led by Jewish Alexander Pečerski, started a mutiny in the destruction camp Sobibor. After the mass escape most of the prisoners were caught and killed, only around 50 survived. Nonetheless, this was the most successful prison break from a death

On the occasion of the Slovenian Cultural Day, 8th of February, you are cordially invited to the open doors day in the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska Street 4. –        from 10 a. m. until 6 p. m. Open doors day, individual visits to the old synagogue and the present exhibition Sobibor; –       

Croatian historian and university professor dr. Ivo Goldstein is coming to present a monograph on the most notorious concentration camp in the Balkans during World War II. A systematic and comprehensive review of the operation of the camp and a phenomenological view of it comes at the right time, because the public in the region