The Morpurgo family was a prominent player in the 19th century Trieste, a bustling commercial port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the economic, cultural, social, and charitable fields. Its roots, however, go back much further: even before the expulsion of the Jews, around 1470, Aron, called The Rich, moved from the increasingly unfavourable Maribor to […]

On the occasion of the Slovenian Cultural Holiday, 8 February, we kindly invite you to the Synagogue Maribor, where we have prepared an Open Doors Day for you. Between 10:00 and 18:00 you will be able to see the exhibition Slovenian Female Inmates in Nazi Concentration Camps for free. At 12:00 and 16:00 you can

Slovenian Female Inmates in Nazi Concentration Camps, opening of a travelling documentary exhibition and a memorial ceremony. The keynote speaker at the event will be MEP Matjaž Nemec. The exhibition will be on display from 7 February to September 2025. During World War II, around 21,000 camp inmates were deported from the current Slovenian territory

Drawings and Paintings by Terezin Artists from the Moreshet Collection (exhibition of the Moreshet Holocaust and Research Center from Givat Haviva) and Theresienstadt: A Town As-If (exhibition of the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor), opening of travelling documentary exhibitions. The exhibitions will be on display from 30 January 30 to 31 March 2025. The exhibition

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, we kindly invite you to a lecture by Isaac Blake The Romani Holocaust or Porrajmos in Nazi Occupied and Fascist Europe. The lecture will be held on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, at 6:00 PM

“Here Is Where Death Worked Itself to Death…”: the Slovenian victims of Auschwitz (exhibition of the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor) and “We Were Just Numbers Who Could Be Cross Out Whenever They Wanted” (exhibition of the Gorenjska Museum), opening of the exhibitions. The exhibitions will be on display from 28 January to

A story of two transports. Jews in Međimurje and Prekmurje during the Holocaust is a travelling documentary exhibition by the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, which will be on display at the Park of Military History Pivka from 7 January to 3 February 2025. The exhibition A Story of Two Transports. Jews from

Priča o dvama transportima. Međimurski i prekmurski Židovi tijekom Holokausta (A story of two transports. Jews in Međimurje and Prekmurje during the Holocaust), opening of a travelling documentary exhibition by the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor. Under the auspices of the international project Never Forget, the exhibition A story of two transports. Jews

Konferenca 80. obletnica osvoboditve Auschwitza in pričevanje Olega Mandića, zadnjega taboriščnika, ki je zapustil Auschwitz po njegovi osvoboditvi se bo odvila v ponedeljek, 27. 1. 2025, ob 10:00 v Mednarodnem raziskovalnem centru druge svetovne vojne Maribor v Melju. Na konferenci bosta s prispevkoma sodelovala zgodovinar in publicist dr. Daniel Siter ter zgodovinar in direktor Centra judovske

In 2021, the Regional and Study Library Murska Sobota carried out a project to catalogue Jewish books that were kept in the library’s depot or received as a gift during the project. The books are a valuable legacy of the local and regional Jewish community before World War II, as most of them were published