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  • This personal and immensely moving collection of photographs taken decades after the Holocaust poignantly documents a once thriving culture that disappeared.
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  • Integral to the installation is a nine-minute video by renowned independent television producer/director Katya Krausova (winner of 1997 Best.

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    Remarkable Exhibition ‘Last Folio’ Opens in São Paulo

    Press Release | São Paulo, 08/19/2016

    Opening ceremony „Last Folio“ in Sao Paulo (f.l.t.r.): Yuri Dojc, Katya Krausova and Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe in front of an exhibit

    • Bertelsmann exhibits unique impressions of former Jewish life in Slovakia at UNIBES Cultural Center until October 22
    • Cultural engagement documents that Brazil is a key growth market for Bertelsmann
    • Numerous guests from business, culture and the media attended the opening

    The traveling exhibition “Last Folio” officially opened at UNIBES Cultural in São Paulo on Thursday evening in the presence of the artists as well as invited guests from business, culture and the media. Bertelsmann, the international media, services and education company, has brought the internationally acclaimed exhibition to Latin America for the first time. São Paulo was chosen as the venue because Brazil is one of the company’s key geographic growth markets.

    The “Last Folio” exhibition has already been on view in several countries – Germany, the U.S., Britain, Russia, Slovakia and Italy – as well as at the European Commission in Brussels and the U.N. in New York. But never before has the exhibition been presented in a space as large as at the UNIBES Cultural Center

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    Last Folio

    A Photographic Journey with Yuri Dojc

    Can the Holocaust be memorialized by an aesthetically beautiful object?  Doesn’t the obscenity of the crime create a fundamental contradiction?  The question still stands 66 years later, even as art is still being made about the Holocaust. Jewish creativity seeks to smother hate. But the questions persist: can a memorial ignite hope instead of despair?

    This is the challenge of Holocaust art and this is the deeply beautiful response of Yuri Dojc’s photographs of the remnants of Slovakian Jewry, currently on view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

    The Last Folio is not an exhibition of photographs.  At its most basic it is four distinct aesthetic experiences (installation, video, images themselves, catalogue) focused on one riveting reality: the destruction of the majority of Slovakian Jewry during the Shoah.  The installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage is a theater piece; a tableau vivant, in which the photographs of Yuri Dojc are used to create set pieces for visual meditation. In the Rotunda Gallery the celebrated designer Daniel Weil (who revitalized the archeological wing of the Israel Museum) has utilized the five exhibition bays to focus on five subjects in Dojc’s images: Ruins, Cemetery, Synagogue, Synagogue Cei

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