Dear Sir/Madam, we kindly invite you to the lecture of dr. Marjana Toša THE FATAL APRIL OF 1944.
The lecture will be held on Friday, 24 April 2015, at 10 a.m. in the Synagogue Maribor at Židovska Street 4 and will be dedicated to the memory of Prekmurje Jews on the 71st anniversary of mass deportations to death camps.

“After the April attack of the Axis powers on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Jews of Prekmurje first experienced a short-term German occupation, and then lived under the Hungarian occupation authorities. In April 1941, members of the Kulturbund and the Germans looted their property for a short time, but after the assignment of Prekmurje to Hungary, things calmed down quite a bit. But the situation changed radically after the German occupation of Hungary on 19 March 1944, when the Nazis took power and began to carry out the systematic cleansing of the Jewish population even in the territory occupied by Hungary, i.e. also in Prekmurje. The decisive and fatal purges of the Jewish population in Prekmurje began in the spring of 1944. On 26 April 1944, the largest group of Prekmurje Jews were gathered in Lendava and Murska Sobota and taken first to Čakovec, and from there to Nagykanizsa, from where they were taken to wagons drove to Birkenau, where it was the assembly point for the largest death camp – Auschwitz. They arrived there in late April and early May. This, the first and largest transport of Prekmurje Jews, numbered 367 people. Most of them ended their lives in Auschwitz on 21 and 22 May 1944. The second, slightly smaller wave of deportations took place in the fall of 1944. According to the data collected so far, a total of 392 Jews from Prekmurje were destroyed. Only a handful of them survived Auschwitz.” (Dr. Marjan Toš)

Fatal April of 1944, lecture summary

Welcome!
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The lecture is organized as part of the Stone Tears project, which was supported by:

International Holocaust Remembrance Allience – IHRA

Municipality of Maribor