An unusual, intensely moving book about the Holocaust, without the images one typically expects. Czech-born Canadian photographer Dojc returns to his ancestral home to photograph an abandoned synagogue and a Jewish school in eastern Slovakia. Inhabitants of these buildings were deported to concentration camps in 1942, leaving behind books, religious scrolls, and other items that have remained in place over the decades, evoking with great poignancy the ghosts of the vanished."