First Train To Auschwitz

Today is an 83rd anniversary of the first train transport from Slovakia to Auschwitz. On March 25, 1942, the first train with thousands of young Jewish–Slovak women and girls left the train station in Poprad, Slovakia. Many never returned home.

In 2012 I travelled the same route with replicate train from the war time to Aushwithz with 300 school kids and then prime minister of Slovakia Iveta Radicova.

This story from 2018 in the Slovak Spectator gives more details of the event and annual commemoration. https://spectator.sme.sk/politics-and-society/c/poprad-commemorated-the-first-transport-to-auschwitz

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The latest exhibition of the Last Folio project opened today at Unibes Cultural, a cultural hub in São Paulo, Brazil.

This body of work, which I have spent more than a decade to compile, is a historical documentary and visual journey of Slovakia, my home country, in the early 1940s, specifically the period when the mass deportation of Jewish Slovaks to Nazi concentration camps took place.

While the project is rooted in a specific time and place, and documents a vanishing culture and a vanished people, it’s message of resilience and endurance in the face of evil remains a relevant, universal theme and one to contemplate more than ever in these trying, shifting times.

More about Last Folio at http://www.yuridojc.com/lastfolio An artist talk by me at one of the past exhibitions is below.

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