As part of the Shoah – Let Us Remember 2026 programme, two documentary exhibitions will be opened in the atrium of the Scientific Research Centre of SASA (ZRC SAZU). The first one is an exhibition of the Moreshet Memorial Center entitled Drawings and Paintings by Terezin Artists from the Moreshet Collection, while the second one is entitled Theresienstadt: A Town As-If and is an exhibition of the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor.
The opening of the exhibitions will be on Monday, 5 January 2026, at 19:00 in the atrium of ZRC SAZU (Novi trg 2, Ljubljana).
The honorary speakers at the event will be His Excellency Dr. Jiří Kuděla, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Slovenia, and Dr. Oto Luthar, Director of ZRC SAZU. The exhibitions will be presented by Boris Hajdinjak, Director of the Synagogue Maribor and author of the exhibition Theresienstadt: A Town As-If.
The exhibition Drawings and Paintings by Terezin Artists from the Moreshet Collection presents a selection of works by three artists who were interned in the Terezin ghetto during World War II: Leo Haas, Bedřich Fritta and Joseph (Joe) Eduard Adolf Spier. Their works are a unique but credible testimony to real life in the Terezín ghetto, which the Nazis tried to portray as a “model ghetto” in order to conceal the brutal oppression of the 34,000 prisoners who were killed there and almost 87,000 people who were sent from there to extermination camps. For the premiere Slovenian presentation of the Moreshet Memorial Center exhibition in January 2024 in Maribor, an accompanying exhibition, Theresienstadt: A Town As-If, was also prepared, which placed the original exhibition into a broader context.
The opening of the exhibition was prepared by ZRC SAZU in collaboration with the Synagogue Maribor and the Embassy of the Czech Republic to Slovenia.
