Several important Jews lived in Maribor in the Middle Ages and in the 19th and 20th centuries. Here we present just a few of their stories.

My Hometown is an opportunity for students to unearth stories relating to the Holocaust through connections close to home. Learning through active research of the local and historical environment can assist understanding of the human experience and enable students to critically consider how and why such stories should be recognised, remembered, and told.

In the Synagogue Maribor we offer you 24 different exhibitions, which you can rent for free and exhibit in your exhibition halls, schools, libraries,…

Virtual 360° tour of the medieval synagogue in Maribor.

Romi predstavljajo največjo etnično manjšino v Evropi, javno védenje o njihovi kulturi in zgodovini pa je kljub temu skromno ali ga sploh ni. V družbi so še vedno močno zakoreninjeni predsodki proti Romom, ti pa so tudi zaradi tega odrinjeni na sam rob družbe.

The project UNITED – UNderstand, Inform, Think, EDucate

Remembering the Holocaust and Building Tolerance and Solidarity in the EU

The Crocus Project is a project for young people aged ten years and over remembering all children who died in the Holocaust.

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 in Slovenia and in neighbouring countries.

Each programme within this project appeals to the public to permanently remember the greatest evil of the 20th century. It should never be forgotten and, above all, it should never be repeated – never and nowhere.

During World War II, the economic prominent and organised Jewish community was also annihilated within today’s Slovenian territory.

The holocaust (Latin ‘holocaustum’ from Greek ‘holókauston’ = sacrifice by fire): a term for the Nazi mass destruction, particulary Jews, during World War II.

The Slovenian anti-Semitism of the 20th century was a result of adopting trends from the immediate vicinity and wider area.It was an occurrence within an environment in which there is no autochtonous source and does not represent any significant historical heritage.

Anti-Semitism: ideology, a movement against Semites, Jews, usually eminating from political or economic sources. It was coined in the late 19th century and indicates anti-Jewish views and activities. Today it covers prejudices against Jews from ancient pre-Christian times up to modern political prosecutions. The nature of anti-Semitic rhetoric has changed from one period to another.

The Maribor synagogue was one of the more important synagogues in Styria because of the role and importance of the Maribor Jewish community.

The medieval Jewish community of Maribor can certainly be considered to be amongst the bigger communities within today’s Slovenian territory, and Maribor itself from amongst the cultural and economic Jewry centres within the then Inner Austrian lands.

Jews, even though they were relatively small in number, played an important role in forming the economic and cultural images of today’s Slovenia.