Marie Fejfarová. Right: 101 years old. There are no old pictures of Marie as burnt all material memories of her life when she turned 101. With just a bathrobe and a toothbrush she knocked at the door of the long-term care home in Bubeneč. She left the villa with furniture, books, clothes and everything else to her “friends” who in turn were supposed to look after her in the long-term care home. They came just once and brought her a cake; they have never shown up again; they live in her villa. She also remembers hiding in a coal cellar form the Nazis in 1939 and the Russians in 1945. POIGNANT
Marie Fejfarová. Right: 101 years old. There are no old pictures of Marie as burnt all material memories of her life when she turned 101. With just a bathrobe and a toothbrush she knocked at the door of the long-term care home in Bubeneč. She left the villa with furniture, books, clothes and everything else to her “friends” who in turn were supposed to look after her in the long-term care home. They came just once and brought her a cake; they have never shown up again; they live in her villa. She also remembers hiding in a coal cellar form the Nazis in 1939 and the Russians in 1945. POIGNANT portraits have posed centenarians alongside their younger selves in a project called Faces of Century. The incredible images tell the unique stories of each person’s life including one woman who was in the truck that hit and killed high-ranking German Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich’s son Klaus in 1943. Another intriguing tale comes from a 101-year-old woman who decided to leave her luxury villa after turning 101 and burnt all material memories of her life including letters, diaries and photographs. She turned up at a long-term care home with nothing more than a bathrobe and a toothbrush. The extraordinary portrait photographs are the work of photographer Jan Langer (39) from Opava, Czech Republic.
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Keywords: centenarians, century, cool, czech, faces, intriguing, jan, langer, poignant, portraits, republic, revolution, young
