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 […]

The Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, the Library – Cultural Centre Lendava, and the Gallery – Museum Lendava cordially invite you to the lecture of Boris Hajdinjak entitled “Boris Pahor as a Prisoner of Nazi Concentration Camps“. The lecture will be held on Friday, 30 January 2026, at 6 pm in the main

The Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor and the Maribor Public Library cordially invite you to the lecture of Boris Hajdinjak entitled “Boris Pahor as a Prisoner of Nazi Concentration Camps.” The lecture will be held on Thursday, 29 January 2026, at 5 pm in Nova vas unit of Maribor Public Library (Cesta proletarskih

The documentary exhibiton “Here Is Where Death Worked Itself to Death…”: Slovenian victims of Auschwitz will be on display in the Ipavec Cultural Centre in Šentjur from 26 January to 5 February 2026. The exhibition tells the story of around 2,600 people from Slovenia who were taken to Auschwitz. Most of them were Slovenians, but

The Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, Šentjur Public Library, Association Domoljubno društvo Franja Malgaja Šentjur, and Šentjur Association for the Values of the National Liberation Movent are cordially inviting to a lecture by Boris Hajdinjak “Auschwitz Victims from Slovenia and Šentjur“. The lecture, which will accompany the opening of the exhibition “Here Is

The traveling documentary exhibition “Auschwitz – A Place on Earth. The Auschwitz Album” by Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, will be displayed in the former Nazi concentration camp Stalag XVIIID in Maribor. The latter today houses the International Research Center for Second World War Maribor (MRC Maribor). This documentary exhibition features the only

Within the framework of this year Shoah – Let Us Remember programme, the Synagogue Maribor will host a projection of four short films which were prepared as part of the Roma Soul Food project. This is an EU-funded international project that brings together Romani communities from Serbia, Greece, and Slovenia, with the aim of exploring

The Austrian-Jewish artist Gisela Rottonara (1873–1943) was on 10 July 1942 deported to Theresienstadt ghetto (Czech: Terezín), where she died merely six months later due to the catastrophic conditions there. During this last months of her life, Gisela created over 60 pencil drawings capturing glimpses of everyday life in Theresienstadt. Most of the images were

Within the framework of the Shoah – Let Us Remember 2026 programme, with which we commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Slovenia, you are cordially invited to attend the opening of the exhibition Images from Theresienstad. A Visual Diary of Gisela Rottonara (1873–1943). The opening will be held on Tuesday, 20 January 2026, at 6

The Synagogue Maribor and the National Education Institute Slovenia are organizing the traditional online seminar for educators, dedicated to the challenges of teaching about the Holocaust today. The seminar will be held on Wednesday, 14 January 2026, at 2 pm. Programme: Welcome Addresses (Marjetka Bedrač, Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, and Vojko Kunaver,