Ten years have passed since a series of Jakov Bararon’s paintings “Or Hadash – New Light” were exhibited in the Maribor Synagogue. This renowned artist will be making a return visit to Maribor and Slovenian audience to present his most recent cycle of paintings called Vista (or View) in which the painter remains faithful to […]

That night, burning candles in the homes of Karst villages were silently expresing deep sorrow of hummiliated man of the Primorska Region. In decades that were yet to come, those “sad lights” were lighted again and again… The book, published by publishing house Mladika, Trieste, marks the 80th anniversary of the shooting of Bazovica heroes.

Jewish cemetery i.e. “židovski cintor” (expression in dialect of the Prekmurje region), as we have named our literary-musical evening, is a selection of several worldwide Jewish anthologies. The first one, entitled “Jewish Anthology in Polish”, was published in 1980 in London and includes poetry of Polish Jews from 1868–1968. Selection and data for the anthology was

»Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the

Each year on the 8th of February, in honour of the Slovene national poet France Prešeren, we celebrate the Prešeren Day, with which we commemorate the poet’s life and work. On this occasion Slovene museums, galleries and other cultural institutions open their doors to public with a desire for a wider public to get a

Who is Jewish? What is individual Judaism about? Who was a Jew since always and who decided to become a Jew later? Austrian photographer Peter Rigaud tried to find the answers on all those questions in his series of portraits of Viennese Jews that were faced with questions about Jewish identity. The photographer made the

Due to our effort for a complete scientific presentation of the Holocaust and within the project Shoah – Let Us Remember 2013, we are holding a science meeting named Each Year One Name. The intention of this meeting is to present the latest researches of respectable scientists, such as historians, sociologists and anthropologist, with special

Slavko Goldstein – historian, politic, publicist, publisher, journalist and screenwriter is certainly one of the most interesting and influential personalities of Croatian public life. His life story is exceptional. We are holding a meeting with Slavko Goldstein (1928) within the project Shoah – Let Us Remember 2013, which is a project that helps us commemorate the

On 1st November 2005 the UN General Assembly has declared the 27th January as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. For the deminishing generations of survivors’ sakes it is the duty of present generations and the historiography to prevent memory loss about one of the darkest sides of 20th century history. Despite the small size of

August 25th, 1992, marked the destruction of Sarajevo’s most famous landmark of the Austro-Hungarian era. The s. c. Vijećnica served as the National University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1947. On August 25th, the smoke from the grenades launched by the aggressor destroyed more than 90% of the library material, with over 2 million