29 January, 2018, at 6 pm
Youth centre EPEKA

The Association EPEKA, Soc. Ent., participates in the SHOA project – Remembering 2018; events to commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Within the framework of the project, Boris Hajdinjak will give a lecture entitled Slovenian Roma in Auschwitz. The lecture will be organised at the EPEKA Youth Centre (Preradovičeva ulica 1, Maribor).

27 January 2018 marks 73 years since the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp. There is no place in the world more marked by death: during the period of Auschwitz’s operation from 1940 to 1945, around 1.1 million people were killed there, including 1 million Jews, or one in six of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. It is for this reason that the date of the liberation of Auschwitz was chosen as Holocaust Memorial Day. Auschwitz is also the camp to which 2 342 people from Slovenia were sent and the place of death of 1 331 of them. Most of them were Slovenes and Slovene Jews. Knowledge of their suffering is well known in the Slovenian public, although still not enough. Almost nothing is known in the Slovenian public about the suffering of the 77 Roma from the vicinity of Novo mesto who were transported to Auschwitz in December 1943. According to the information gathered so far, all but six of them probably died in Auschwitz, the remaining six died in other German camps. We dedicate our lecture “Slovenian Roma in Auschwitz” to them. The lecture will take place on Monday, 29 January 2018, at 6 pm at the EPEKA Youth Centre at Preradovičeva Street 1 in Maribor. The lecture will be given by Boris Hajdinjak, Director of the Centre for Jewish Cultural Heritage Sinagoga Maribor. You are cordially invited!

The project is coordinated by the Centre of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor.

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