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 exhibitions will be opened on Wednesday, 28 January 2026, at 12:00 in the Park of Military History (Kolodvorska cesta 51, Pivka).
The honorary speaker at the event will be Dr Jiří Kuděla, the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Slovenia. The exhibitions will be presented by Boris Hajdinjak, the director of the Synagogue Maribor and author of the exhibition Theresienstadt: A Town As-If.
The exhibitions will be on display until 15 May 2026.
The exhibition Drawings and Paintings by Terezin Artists from the Moreshet Collection presents a selection of works by three artists who were imprisoned in the Terezín ghetto during World War II – Leo Haas, Bedřich Fritta and Joseph (Jo) Eduard Adolf Spier. Their works are a unique but authentic testimony of real life in the Terezín ghetto, which the Nazis tried to portray as a “model ghetto” in order to cover up the brutal oppression of the 34,000 prisoners who were killed there and the nearly 87,000 people who were sent from there to the extermination camps. The Slovenian premiere of the exhibition, which was held in the Synagogue Maribor in 2024, was accompanied by the exhibition Theresienstadt: A Town As-If, that added the wider context to the original exhibition.
Organisers of the event: Park of Military History Pivka, Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, Embassy of the Czech Republic to Slovenia
