The Jewish History of Maribor exhibition is hosted at Negova Castle. You can see it from 8th of September to 30th of October. The exhibition in 22 panels presents the history of the Jews in Maribor from their settlement to the present day. The first half of the exhibition deals with the period of the Middle Ages, while the […]

The Center for Jewish Cultural Heritage The Maribor Synagogue and the Maribor Library kindly invite you to the presentation of Dušan Šarotar’s novel Star Chart. The presentation will take place on Thursday, 8th of September 2022, at 6 p.m. in the Synagogue Maribor. Darka Tancer-Kajnih will talk to the author. The musical accompaniment will be provided by violinist

European Heritage Days 2022 in Synagogue Maribor. European Heritage Days will take place from 24th of September to 9th of October 2022. Entrance to Synagogue Maribor will be free during this time, and we will also be open on weekends from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The exception will be the last day, i.e. Saturday, 8th of October

Renewal is woven into virtually all aspects of Jewish life and practice – in fact Jewish life is continually building on the past in new ways – bringing a sense of constant change with reassuring continuity. The European Days of Jewish Culture (EDJC for short) is a pan-European project that has been running since 2000. With it, the

There is no place in the world more marked by the Holocaust than the Auschwitz concentration camp: during its operation, from May 1940 to January 1945, around 1.3 million people were sent there. In total, about 1.1 million people were killed in Auschwitz, of which 960,000 were Jews, or nearly one in six of the

On the evening of 2nd of August 1944, the Nazis closed down Sector BIIe or “Zigeunerlager” (“Gypsy camp”) at Auschwitz-Birkenau and brutally murdered nearly three thousand Sinti and Roma in the gas chambers in a single night. On the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide against Roma and

The Jewish History of Maribor exhibition will be on display at Trg Leona Štuklja in Maribor from 15th of July to 16th of August 2022. The exhibition in 22 panels presents the history of the Jews in Maribor from their settlement to the present day. The first half of the exhibition deals with the period of the Middle Ages,

On 4th of July 2022 we installed new Stolpersteine in Šalovci and Lendava. In Šalovci at the address Šalovci 161, the members of the Schönauer family got the Stolpersteine: Julij, Elizabeta, Ladislav, and Helena. In Lendava, at the Trgu ljudske pravice 11 Stolpersteine were received by the Deutsch family: Aladar, Elizabeta and Judita. Also in Lendava,

Vljudno vabljeni! The Židovska Cultural Quarter kindly invites you to Summer Evening at Židovska on Saturday, 18th of June 2022! Cultural institutions operating in the area of ​​Židovska ulica – GT22, Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, Maribor Photo Club and Stolp Photo Gallery, Maribor Association of Fine Artists and DLUM Gallery, and Youth Cultural Center and Media

In the lobby of the Museum of Recent History Celje, a new guest exhibition “Here Is Where Death Worked Itself To Death…”: Slovenian Victims of Auschwitz is on display from 7th of June 2022. Students of the First Gymnasium in Celje took part in the cultural program. After greetings and speeches, the exhibition was presented by the author Boris Hajdinjak,