SNH Monthly Social
2026-06-24 18:00 - 20:30, 2026-07-29 18:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Slovenian National Home, 6417 St Clair Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, 44103, United States
Join SNH for our Monthly Socials!
Admission is $10 per person and may be paid with cash upon entrance. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and typically ends around 8:30 p.m. Free parking is available in the attached rear lot.
Admission includes a light dinner snack and entry for the main raffle (need not be present to win). Cash bar. 50/50 sideboards are available while supplies last. Live music is played each month and dancing is encouraged – gather together for an evening of connection and community!
The socials are hosted monthly and admission for the full year is available. Just speak to a SNH volunteer when you arrive to reserve your spot for the year.
6417 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44103
6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

St. Vitus Annual Parish Summer Picnic
2026-07-12 | Slovenska Pristava, 1024 Brandt Rd, Geneva, OH, 44041, United States
July 12, 2026 (Sunday). Annual Parish Summer Picnic. On Slovenska Pristava in Harpersfield, Ohio. Noon Mass to be followed by a great dinner and then a family filled and orientated day of light foods, many refreshments, and the famous “cevapcici” grilled right on site!
In addition, the swimming pool will be open for a nominal charge.
No admission or parking fee on that day at SP.
Net proceeds to benefit the operating and capital needs of the parish.
Additional information is forthcoming.

Historical Tour of Slovenia’s World War II History
2026-09-28 - 2026-10-07 | OH
Registration will begin in February 2026.
TOUR DATES: September 28 – October 6, 2026
Slovenianhistoricaltours.com
Email: slovenianhistoricaltours@gmail.com for more information or to be added to our mailing list.
Youtube channel with videos from 2025 tour: http://www.youtube.com/@SlovenianHistoricalTours
By Maria Velikonja, who was an investigator at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia during the 1990’s war.
In 2025, we successfully toured Slovenia’s World War II history. In 2026, we will partner with the publisher Družina in Ljubljana. Družina will advertise the tour in Slovenia and recruit local Slovenians to join our group.
Slovenia’s sad World War II history left a divide between the “Home Guards” and the “Partisans” that has not been fully resolved. After WWII was over in 1945, Slovenia
suffered the largest crimes against humanity, or genocide, in post-WWII Europe when the British repatriated tens of thousands of refugees back to Yugoslavia, where they
were killed by the new communist government and dumped into mass graves around Slovenia.
The tour will visit these mass grave sites, former concentration camps, and prisons. We will be guided by Slovenia’s experts, including historians, archaeologists, journalists,
writers, and an international human rights expert. The focus of the tour will be on learning about communist/Partisan revolutionary violence, although crimes committed
by the Nazis, Italians, and Slovene Home Guards will also be discussed. Several sites will be visited on each day. Three or four evenings will also be dedicated to listening to
expert speakers.
The tour begins in Slovenia and will be conducted in English and Slovenian. Experts will be confirmed as we approach the tour. The website will be updated regularly. The tour cost will be published soon.

Day 1 Monday September 28

Check in to pri Marku or Hotel Loka, Crngrob 5
Dinner and evening meeting

Day 2 Tuesday September 29:

Crngrob mass graves. Hear from a family member, forced by Partisans to participate in the mass graves burial.
Škofja Loka castle tour with expert guide. Discussion of the concentration camp.
Visit Škofja Loka ossuary, holding mass grave victims.
Begunje na Gorenjskem, former Nazi and communist concentration camps
Expert: Alenka Puhar, author
Stay in Crngrob

Day 3 Wednesday September 30:

Ljubljana: Ljubljana police headquarters basement tour–former interrogation room
Ljubljana Zale cemetery; monument to victims of revolutionary violence
Study Center for National Reconciliation (SCNR)
Museum of Contemporary History at Tivoli Park. Expert: Dr. Monika Kokalj-Kočevar
City walking tour: Dr. Renato Podbersič: former UDBA offices and more
Ljubljana National Library (NUK) bunker, where documents were hidden from communists: Expert Helena Janezič
Evening speakers at Slovenska Matica. Speakers include: a survivor of the Goli Otok communist concentration camp; Meta Velikonja, a witness to the end of the war in Ljubljana and the new communist authorities taking her father away forever.
Peter Hribar: a discussion on inherited trauma.
Stay in Ljubljana

Day 4 Thursday October 1:

Ljubljana: Celica Italian jail, Žale cemetery, Šentvid school (former concentration camp), Sveti Urh, Šentjošt nad Horjulom, Orlov Home Guard cemetery.
Evening speakers at Slovenska Matica: Speakers include Jože Dežman, Chairman of the Concealed Mass Graves Commission for Slovenia; a speaker on the Slovenian DNA Project. Dr. Uros Kosir will give a slide presentation on Kocevski Rog.
Stay in Ljubljana

Day 5 Friday October 2:

Flight of the Refugees: Ljubelj concentration camp, Vetrinj, Bleiburg train station, church plaques, Dobrava cemetery, Težno anti-tank ditch
Stay in Maribor

Day 6 Saturday October 3:

Ormož, Kidričevič/Šterntal concentration camp for Gottschee civilians, Petriček house, Celje, Huda Jama mass grave, Teharje memorial.
Stay in Ljubljana

Day 7 Sunday October 4:

Turjak, last battle of the Village Guards.
Kočevski Rog: Jama pod Krenom; Macesnova Gorica
Expert speaker: Dr. Uroš Košir.
Stay in Trieste

Day 8 Monday October 5:

Trieste: Coroneo Italian prison; Gestapo headquarters
Slovenian cultural institutions
Walking tour of Trieste: Home Guard posts
Stay in Trieste
Evening speaker

Day 9 Tuesday October 6:

Trieste: San Sabba concentration camp, Basovizza memorial and mass grave.
Nova Gorica: Trnovo plateau; Zalesnika mass grave
Stay in Ljubljana
Possible evening speakers

Day 10, Wednesday October: 7

Tour over
Arrange shuttles to airport

This tour will be conducted in conjunction with Tourism Slovenia, which will coordinate transportation, lodging, and most meals. Local Slovenian citizens will also join our tour this year.
https://tourismslovenia.eu
