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CPOY 70 Portfolio Silver, Runner-Up College Photographer of the Year: Daniel Owen

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Rising from the quiet city streets of Oradea, the majestic Zion Neologic Synagogue, one of the largest in Romania, sets empty along the banks of the Crisul Repede River as it winds through the northwest border regions of the Romania’s Transylvanian territory. These long-disputed lands were once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but now rest just a few miles east of the Hungarian border inside Romania. The inhabitants of this city have historically been diverse in their cultures and ethnicities, but the members of the small Jewish Community Center nestled quietly in the heart of the small city hope their history will not be erased with time. The small Jewish Community Center in Oradea, Romania was once the spiritual and social center for the cities over thirty-thousand Jews. After the Second World War the number is barely over one-hundred. The members of this community are uncertain of the future of their community, though they hold to hope that history of their people and their great contributions will always remain. This documentary details the daily lives of Holocaust survivors and children and the legacy their people hope to maintain in the light of an uncertain future.
Daniel Owen / Ohio University
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