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 of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Only around 1,000 of them returned home, while for most of the rest, Auschwitz was the place of death. That is why Auschwitz is one of the largest cemeteries of Slovenian victims of World War II.
The exhibition, which premiered in 2020 at the Synagogue Maribor and has since been shown in numerous locations across Slovenia, will also be on display to visitors at Borl Castle starting 8 May 2026. The official opening of the exhibition will take place on the same day, i.e. on Friday, 8 May 2026, at 6 pm, as part of the main regional ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the uprising against the occupying forces and the establishment of the National Liberation Front of Slovenia. The ceremony is organized by the Association for the Values of the National Liberation Movement of Slovenia in Ptuj to pay a tribute to the victims of Nazi violence at Borl Castle from 1941 to 1943. Borl Castle—one of the most recognizable and striking landmarks and the “gateway” to the Haloze region—was used by the Germans during World War II as a transit camp for political prisoners. The regional ceremony will begin at 5 pm.
The exhibition will be on display at Borl Castle untill 5 July 2026.
