As part of the Jazz ‘ma mlade festival (https://mkc.si/koledar/2018/6/1/jazz-ma-mlade), the Synagogue Maribor is organizing a 45-minute free guided tour of Jewish Street and Jewish Square: buildings, people and events on Friday, 8th VI. 2018, starting at 7:00 p.m. The start of the tour will be in front of the building of the Synagogue Maribor. The […]

Proclamation of Aleksandar and Agnes Žilavec from Andrejci and Jožef, Franc, and Marija Fartelj from Tešanovci as Righteous among the nations, Murska Sobota, 26 of April 2018: https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/odmevi/174535511 https://www.vecer.com/v-murskosoboskem-gradu-razglasili-pravicnike-ki-so-resili-juda-mirka-hirsla-6457546 https://www.vestnik.si/v-murskosoboskem-gradu-razglasili-pravicnike-ki-so-resili-juda-mirka-hirsla-6457546 https://www.mladina.si/185377/novi-slovenski-pravicni-med-narodi/

Seminar for teachers The Roma and Romani community in Slovenia and Croatia in the 20th century and at the beginning of 21st century, Maribor Synagogue, 13. april. 2018: http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/romska-oddaja/174535595

On the International Museum Day – 18 May 2018, we are cordially inviting you at the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska ulica 4, to the Open doors day. In the scope of the open doors day, visitors will have the opportunity to see the exhibition Scots Jews: Identity, Belonging and the Future. Free entrance will be possible between

There have been Jews in Scotland since at least the 17th century, coming initially in ones and twos to study at Scotland’s famed universities and then in increasing numbers through the 19th and into the 20th centuries as persecution in Eastern Europe made Jewish life increasingly precarious. While maintaining its particular traditions, the Jewish community

Within the framework of the cultural and promotional programme “Split in Maribor”, a lecture on Vid Morpurgo – one of the foremost representatives of Split’s social and political life in the second half of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century – will be held at the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor.

Josef Schleich was not the only one who sent persecuted people from the Third Reich abroad during the time of National Socialist terror, but he did it in a big way in the years 1938-1941 with the help of a professional and well-organized smuggling organization. Thousands of Jews paid him to smuggle them across the

On Thursday, 8 February 2018, on the Slovenian cultural holiday, we kindly invite you to the Synagogue Maribor. The synagogue will be open that day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors are invited to view the current documentary exhibition Auschwitz – A Place on Earth: Auschwitz Album, and at 10:15 a.m. and 1 p.m.

On 27 January 2018, 73 years have passed since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. There is no place in the world more marked by death: during Auschwitz’s operation from 1940 to 1945, around 1.1 million people were killed there, including 1 million Jews, or one in six of the 6 million Jews killed

Elizabeta Savica Rožanc rescued the Jewish boy Tomaž Zajc during the Second World War. In 2016, the Holocaust Memorial Center Yad Vashem proclaimed Elizabeth and her parents, Emo and Miho Rožanc, Righteous Among Nations. We dedicate this year’s traditional scientific meeting Each Year One Name to the Righteous Elizabeta Horvath, born Rožanc. Renowned lecturers from Slovenia, Croatia