Sinagoga Maribor

Current events

Jewish-Christian Sources and Dimensions of Dialogue

Internatiopnal scientific symposium

20.-21. April 2021, from 9:00 onwards

We kindly invite you to join us on Tuesday, 20th of April, and Wednesday, 21se of April 2021, at the International Scientific Symposium “Judeo-Christian Sources and Dimensions of Dialogue”. The symposium will be organized in the online platform Zoom, which you will access at THIS LINK (upon...

Roman Erich Petsche and his Kočevska

Virtual opening of an art exhibition

22. April 2021, at 18:00

We kindly invite you to the virtual opening of the art exhibition Roman Erich Petsche and his Kočevska, which will take place on Thursday, 22sn of April 2021, at 18:00. Roman Erich Petsche was born in 1907 in Kočevje in a family of Kočevje Germans. After the First World War, the family emigra...

Important announcement

Opening hours

From 13. April 2021

Synagogue Maribor reopens to visitors from 13th April 2021! Dear visitors, we are pleased that Synagogue Maribor will reopen its doors to you on Tuesday, 13th April 2021. To make your visit carefree, we have properly prepared the premises and organized the work of employees. It is possibl...

Marko Vogrič: Grandfather Franc, Gorizia – Dachau. A Photo Letter from the Camp

Photographic exhibition

21 January - 30 April 2021

The Gorizia-born photographer Marko Vogrič is tied to the former Nazi camp Dachau through a very personal family story. It was in this camp, where his grandfather Franc died just shortly after the liberation of the camp. The photographer thus knows his grandfather only from the memories of thos...

Maribor’s synagogue

The Maribor synagogue was one of the more important synagogues in Styria because of the role and importance of the Maribor Jewish community. The synagogue was not only the religious but also the spiritual and cultural centre of the former Maribor Jewish community. In regard to its importance and...

Jewish cultural heritage

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The Crocus Project

The Crocus Project is a project for young people aged eleven years and over remembering all children who died in the Holocaust. Visit The Crocus Project official website here. The Crocus Project is an Irish initiative whereby HETI (Holocaust Education Trust Ireland) provides yellow Crocus b...

Project “Stone Tears”

Project Stone Tears is an international project focused on developing strategies as well as providing educational and meaningful substance for three remembrance days honouring the victims of the Holocaust and Porrajmos (Genocide of the Roma), while promoting and encouraging such activities both i...

Jews in Slovenia

Jews, even though they were relatively small in number, played an important role in forming the economic and cultural images of today’s Slovenia. There are very few visual remains witnessing the Jewish presence in Slovenia in the early centuries, so it is not exactly clear when the Jews settle...