The Night that silenced the Violins
Commemorative event
27 July 2017, at 6 p. m.
On the eve of the 2 August 1944, the Nazis abolished the “Zigeunerlager” (“Gypsy camp”) in Auschwitz-Birkenau and in one single night killed several thousand Sinti and Roma in gas chambers. In memory of this tragic event is the 2nd of August in individual countries marked as the Internati...
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The Morpurgos, the descendants of the Maribor Jews
Documentary exhibition
29 June - 31 August 2017
In Maribor, in the late Middle Ages, there lived a relatively large and important Jewish community. The had to leave the city at the end of the 15th century and the Maribor Jews then settled down in various places all across the world. Some of them later took up the Marpurg(er)/Marburg(er) surnam...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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