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NOTE: You may want to watch "Three Minutes: A Lengthening" before; instructions were sent to our mailing list. "Three Minutes in Poland" tells the extraordinary story of a 1938 home movie, once merely a travel souvenir, now celebrated worldwide as a memorial to the lost Jewish culture of Poland. Shot one year before the outbreak of World War II by David Kurtz, the author’s grandfather, the three minutes of footage show ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town. Of the three thousand Jews who lived there, fewer than one hundred would survive the Holocaust. David Kurtz’s film is the only moving imagery of this community prior to its destruction. "Three Minutes in Poland" traces Glenn Kurtz’s decade-long journey to identify the people in his grandfather’s haunting images. Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents, and artifacts, "Three Minutes in Poland" transforms this fragmentary record of a town on the brink of catastrophe into a memorial to the individuals—and the vibrant culture—annihilated in the Holocaust. Now the basis of an award-winning documentary, "Three Minutes: A Lengthening," these few minutes of film have connected survivors, descendants, local residents in Poland, and viewers worldwide in a living community of remembrance, becoming a testament to memory, loss, and improbable survival.
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