The Crocus Project is an international project that is implemented in many European countries. It was designed by the Irish organization Holocaust Education Ireland, and the national coordinator of the project in Slovenia is the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor. You can read more about the project HERE. In the upcoming school year 2026/2027, we invite you […]
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The Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, Belana Cirkulane Public Institute, and the Society for the Revival of Borl Castle are cordially inviting to a lecture by Boris Hajdinjak “Auschwitz Victims from Slovenia and Borl”. The lecture, which will accompany the exhibition “Here Is Where Death Worked Itself to Death…”: Slovenian victims of Auschwitz,
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On Saturday, 20 June 2026, as part of this year’s Museums on a Summer Night programme, the Židovska Cultural Quarter (KČŽ) cordially invites you to the Summer Evening at Židovska. The Summer Evening at Židovska will begin at 6 pm and will conclude at midnight. Pay a visit to the exhibition spaces of KČŽ’s partner
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On the International Museum Day, we invite you to a lecture by Boris Hajdinjak on the Jews of medieval Ptuj. The lecture will take place on Monday, 18 May 2026, at 6:00 pm at Ptuj Castle. From the late 13th to the mid-15th century, Jews were among the inhabitants of medieval Ptuj. Their presence is
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Dear visitors, On the International Museum Day, we invite you to an open doors day of the Synagogue Maribor, on which you will have the possibility to visit the former medieval synagogue in Maribor and view our current exhibition “Images from Theresienstadt. A Visual Diary of Gisela Rottonara (1873–1943)” free of charge. This year’s International Museum
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The documentary exhibiton by Boris Hajdinjak “Here Is Where Death Worked Itself to Death…”: Slovenian victims of Auschwitz tells the story of around 2,600 people from Slovenia who were taken to Auschwitz. Most of them were Slovenians, but among the deportees were also around 350 Jews, at least 78 Roma and at least three members
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Dear friends, We kindly invite you to help shape the programme of this year’s implementation of the pan-European project European Days of Jewish Culture. With this project the organisers across Europe strive to highlight the diversity and richness of Judaism and its historical significance in the local, regional and national environment. The central theme of
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We cordially invite you to the presentation of the collection of papers Slovenian Prisoners in the Nazi Concentration Camp System. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, 11 February 2026, at 5 pm at the National Liberation Museum Maribor (Ulica heroja Tomšiča 5). The collection of papers Slovenski taboriščniki v sistemu nacističnih koncentracijskih taborišč (Slovenian
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On 8 February – the Slovenian Cultural Holiday, we cordially invite you to visit the Synagogue Maribor and see the exhibition Images from Theresienstadt. A Visual Diary of Gisela Rottonara (1873–1943). The Synagogue Maribor will be open on that day from 10am until 6pm. Furthermore, on Slovenian Cultural Holiday you can also visit other cultural
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As part of the Shoah – Let Us Remember 2026 programme, two traveling documentary exhibitions will be on display at the Park of Military History in Pivka: Drawings and Paintings by Terezin Artists from the Moreshet Collection (exhibition from the Moreshet Holocaust and Research Center from Givat Haviva) and Theresienstadt: A Town As-If (exhibition from
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