Issue 7652 13 November, 2009 After the school clock stopped Yuri Dojc found an abandoned Jewish school. His photos have just gone on show in Cambridge AN abandoned Jewish school in eastern Slovakia is the subject of a collection of photographs by Yuri Dojc, an acclaimed Slovakian photographer, who now lives in Canada. The school, on the border of Poland and Ukraine, was abandoned intact when the pupils and staff were removed to concentration camps in 1943. The buildings, including an ornate synagogue, are open to the elements, and the goats. Among the artefacts found by the photographer are textbooks, essays with corrections, school reports, and even sugar left in a cupboard. There is a library containing many volumes and scrolls, most of them now beyond repair: Mr Dojc, and Katya Krausova, a documentary film‐maker, have captured the school and its contents on film, treating them as survivors, the silent witnesses of a once‐thriving culture. They were both students in London in 1968, when Czechoslovakia was invaded by Russia, and Mr Dojc has made frequent trips back to Slovakia since 1990 to catalogue the remnants of the Jewish community. Among the many hundreds of books and fragments photographed by Mr Dojc, he found a book once owned by his grandfather, Jakub: This is the first time the photographs have been on show in the UK. The exhibition is designed by Daniel Weil of Pentagram. The exhibition “Last Folio: Beauty of Decay and Preservation” can be seen in the Lower Library, Gonville and Caius College, Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1TA; it runs until 27 November, and is open daily from 11.30 to 5.30. Entry is free. The exhibition is sponsored by the Rothschild Foundation (Europe), the Lowy Mitchell Foundation, the Slovak Ministry of Culture, and Epson Canada, and is supported by the Cambridge Jewish Residents Association and the the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths. It was first seen in Bratislava and Prague. There are plans for it to be seen in New York, Moscow, and Sydney in 2010. www.yuridojc.com/lastfolio www.woolfinstitute.cam.ac.uk