Sinagoga Maribor

Current events

Shoah – Let Us Remember 2022

Various events

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27th of January, on behalf of organizers from all over Slovenia as part of the Shoah - Let Us Remember 2022 project, we kindly invite you to commemorative and cultural events to remember the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecu...

Stars without a Heaven: Children in the Holocaust

documentary exhibition

25. January 2022, at 18:00, Maribor public library (TC City Maribor)

During the Holocaust (1933–1945), European Jewish communities endured severe upheavals, experiencing terrible social and family upheavals. The children who lived in these circumstances were primarily disrupted by the daily routine they were accustomed to, many of whom were forced to “grow up...

Roma on the Move

documentary exhibition

27. January 2022, at 18:00, EPEKA

They are known as “Gypsies” and call themselves Roma or Sinti. According to the agreement of the First World Romani Congress in London 1971, we use the term Roma for all of them. Exhibition Roma on the Move is familiarizing us with the history of Roma migrations to Europe with the emphasis...

Urgent announcement – The synagogue is temporarily closed!

Synagogue closed until further notice

From 12. October until further notice

Dear visitors, we would like to inform you that Synagogue Maribor will be CLOSED for visitors until further notice due to urgent renovation works. Although it will not be possible to visit the synagogue, we invite you to join us at the events that we will be organizing during thi...

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 ten 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 bulb...

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...