In Slovenia, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January, is commemorated with the Shoah – Let Us Rememberannual 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 […]

The goal of the scientific meetings Each Year One Name is to publicly present the recent research findings from the field of the history of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and at the same time, life stories of the so-called Righteous Among the Nations and individuals who were victims of the Nazi destruction machine during the Second World War.

Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, Jewish Cultural Center Ljubljana, and Mini Theater invite you to the main rememberence celebration marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day “Imagine that this had happened!” We invite you to join us in the Maribor Synagogue on Thursday, 24 January, at 18:00. Director of JCC Ljubljana Robert Waltl will do the traditional reading

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 camp in World war 2. We would

Dear visitors, You are kindly invited to the final guided tour of the exhibition “From the desert to the table”. The tour will take place on Wednesday, 9 January 2019, at 6 pm in the Synagogue Maribor (Židovska Street 4) with the author of the exhibition Samo Skralovnik, PhD. Afterwards, a presentation of an accompanying exhibition catalogue will follow, as

We would like to invite you to a lecture of historian Klemen Brvar titled “Masada – rock, stage, symbol”. The lecture will happen on Thursday, 13 December 2018, at 6 pm in Sinagoga Maribor (Židovska ulica 4).

Rotovški bralni klub vas v torek, 4. 12. 2018, ob 17.30 vabi v Čitalnico Rotovž (Rotovški trg 1) na pogovor o romanu Evangelij po Jezusu Kristusu, ki ga je napisal portugalski nobelovec José Saramago. S sklepnim bralnim klubom sezone in izbiro biblične tematike se pridružujemo dogajanju ob izjemni biblični arheološki razstavi Od puščave do mize, ki stoji v

The Maribor Synagogue joins the all-Slovenian project “The Merry Day of Culture”. This project is traditionally organized on 3 December – the birthday of one of the greatest Slovenian poets France Prešeren. On Monday, 3 December 2018, we prepared for you: – from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Open doors day (Free visit to the Old Jewish Sinagogue

On Friday, 30 November, at 18:00 in the Maribor Synagogue there will be a lecture of Aleksandra Nestorović and Andrej Preložnik titled “The Biblical Archeological Collection – A Window to the World of the Old East”. The biblical archeological collection of the Theological library of Maribor is not the only Slovenian collection of objects from outside of

We would like to invite you to a lecture by Aleš Maver PhD, titled From Caiaphas to Judah Ben-Hur: The Jews in ancient times on movie screen The lecture will take place on Thursday, 22 November 2018, at 18:00 in the Maribor Synagogue. Main subject will be Jews from 1st century BC to 1st century AD,