{"product_id":"yuri-dojc-last-folio","title":"Yuri Dojc: Last Folio","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis personal and immensely moving collection of photographs taken decades after the Holocaust poignantly documents a once thriving culture that disappeared virtually overnight. The first country to adopt Nazi Germanys anti-Jewish policies  Slovakia transported three-quarters of its Jewish population to concentration camps in a matter of months  including Yuri Dojcs grandfather. Many years later  Dojc returned to his ancestors home  camera in hand. Serendipity led him to an abandoned Jewish school in eastern Slovakia  where time had stood still since the day in 1943 when all those attending were taken away to the camps. What he found inside  as well as in the abandoned synagogues and cemeteries he visited  were the remnants of a dynamic culture that disappeared in an instant. These haunting photographs of decaying books  fragments of the Torah  splintered gravestones and the vacant  crumbling building  evoke a lost way of life. The photographs vibrant colors  exquisite detail  and near abstract composition tell us more about how the people lived than how they died. Among the many hundreds of books and fragments  one stands out especially  one which miraculously found its way from dusty pile to its rightful heir  a book once owned by Yuris grandfather  Jakub. Beautifully reproduced in this volume  Dojcs exquisite images are both artistically and historically powerful.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964873044021,"sku":"ByrdShop_3791381458","price":43.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783791381459_6db3a4a5-e541-4b17-968c-72a147f54aef.jpg?v=1772670747","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/yuri-dojc-last-folio","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}