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  1. Número de páginas
    432 páginas
  2. Idioma
    Inglés
  3. Editorial
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  4. Fecha de publicación
    18 Noviembre 2014
  5. Dimensiones
    6.3 x 1.37 x 9.28 pulgadas
  6. ISBN-10
    0374276773
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0374276775
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Named one of the best books of 2014 by NPR, The New Yorker, and The Boston Globe

When Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents' closet in Florida, he has no inkling of its historical significance or of the impact it will have on his life. The film, shot long ago by his grandfather on a sightseeing trip to Europe, includes shaky footage of Paris and the Swiss Alps, with someone inevitably waving at the camera. Astonishingly, David Kurtz also captured on color 16mm film the only known moving images of the thriving, predominantly Jewish town of Nasielsk, Poland, shortly before the community's destruction. "Blissfully unaware of the catastrophe that lay just ahead," he just happened to visit his birthplace in 1938, a year before the Nazi occupation. Of the town's three thousand Jewish inhabitants, fewer than one hundred would survive.
Glenn Kurtz quickly recognizes the brief footage as a crucial link in a lost history. "The longer I spent with my grandfather's film," he writes, "the richer and more fragmentary its images became." Every image, every face, was a mystery that might be solved. Soon he is swept up in a remarkable journey to learn everything he can about these people. After restoring the film, which had shrunk and propelled across the United States; to Canada, England, Poland, and Israel; and into archives, basements, cemeteries, and even an irrigation ditch at an abandoned Luftwaffe airfield as he looks for shards of Nasielsk's Jewish history.
One day, Kurtz hears from a young woman who had watched the video on the Holocaust Museum's website. As the camera panned across the faces of children, she recognized her grandfather as a thirteen-year-old boy. Moszek Tuchendler of Nasielsk was now eighty-six-year-old Maurice Chandler of Florida, and when Kurtz meets him, the lost history of Nasielsk comes into view. Chandler's laser-sharp recollections create a bridge between two worlds, and he helps Kurtz eventually locate six more survivors, including a ninety-six-year-old woman who also appears in the film, standing next to the man she would later marry.
Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents, and artifacts, Three Minutes in Poland tells the rich, harrowing, and surprisingly intertwined stories of these seven survivors and their Polish hometown. "I began to catch fleeting glimpses of the living town," Kurtz writes, "a cruelly narrow sample of its relationships, contradictions, scandals." Originally a travel souvenir, David Kurtz's home movie became the most important record of a vibrant town on the brink of extinction. From this brief film, Glenn Kurtz creates a poignant yet unsentimental exploration of memory, loss, and improbable survival--a monument to a lost world.

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“Kurtz's quest to learn about the lost world depicted in his grandfather's home movie is at the heart of this deeply moving, gorgeously written book.” ―Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe

“[An] expansive, beautifully rendered micro-history. . . In the pages of Glenn Kurtz's marvelous book, the ghosts from those three minutes are breathtakingly brought to life.” ―Louise Steinman, Los Angeles Times

“An impressive feat of historical research . . . In a genre so often preoccupied with the recitation of horrors, Three Minutes in Poland is the rare work that seems more about people than about ghosts.” ―Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post

“In this captivating book, Mr. Kurtz tries to reconstruct Jewish Nasielsk, knowing he will fail--not only because he arrives too late but because memory is by nature incomplete.” ―Dara Horn, The Wall Street Journal

“Three Minutes in Poland--along with the remarkable four-year quest it documents--is an act of reverence, as well as a feat of archival reconstruction. Kurtz's patience, energy and appetite for detail seem boundless, and they gradually bring a community--a microcosm of Polish Jewry, with all its political and religious factions and class divisions--(almost) to life . . . The book accumulates elegiac power . . . Three Minutes in Poland describes with horrifying precision the ordeals that preceded the murders of most of Nasielsk's Jewish community. But equally compelling pages document how Chandler, with guile, luck and some Polish help, escapes the Warsaw ghetto, took a non-Jewish Polish identity and managed to survive.” ―Julia Klein, The Chicago Tribune

“Kurtz weaves . . . a haunting web of contingency” ―The New Yorker

“Kurtz's tenacious research and sensitive reporting make this book a gem.” ―The Christian Science Monitor, The 10 best books of November

“Engrossing, exhaustively researched.” ―Jessica Zack, San Francisco Chronicle

“A rare glimpse of a lost world.” ―Moment magazine

“A pilgrimage of the highest order.” ―Elaine Margolin, Jewish Journal

“Three Minutes in Poland begins as the story of an old family film rediscovered and veers into an important tale of Polish shtetls during World War II. It is intensely moving and brilliantly researched, and it reads like a thriller.” ―Elie Wiesel, author of Night

“A masterpiece. With scrupulous intelligence and deep compassion, Glenn Kurtz tells this stupendous, terrifying, and ultimately consoling story in a way that fully honors the material. The reader grieves for what was lost, but is also alert to the miracle that anything was saved at all. Kurtz has done us all a great service in rescuing this tale from oblivion. Three Minutes In Poland is destined to be a classic.” ―Teju Cole, author of Open City

“Glenn Kurtz's beautifully written book is many things at once: a family memoir, a page-turning mystery, a penetrating look at one of the darkest chapters in human history. Above all, it's a powerful testament to the singular worth of every life. That's the passion that inspired Kurtz through his years of research, and I can't think of a worthier one.” ―Rebecca Goldstein, author of Mazel

“Glenn Kurtz leads the reader on an inspiring journey through the forgotten past in this meticulous work of historical reconstruction. I was amazed by the patient, forensic skill with which he followed the trail of a handful of images into a vibrant array of voices and visual memories. By helping his many interview subjects remember details of a world they themselves didn't know they still carried inside, Kurtz discovers life where there had seemed only to be loss.” ―George Prochnik, author of The Impossible Exile

“With nothing more to go on than three scant minutes in a family film, Glenn Kurtz has meticulously pieced together a luminous, searing story of a place and its people. I read this beautiful book wishing for nothing less than to turn back the clock and change the course of history. Kurtz is a restrained and elegant writer, and Three Minutes in Poland is not only a magnificent literary achievement, but a human one.” ―Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion

Biografía del autor

Glenn Kurtz is the author of Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music and the host of Conversations on Practice, a series of public conversations about writing held at McNally Jackson Books in New York City.

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Glenn Kurtz is the author of two books: "Three Minutes in Poland," which the Boston Globe calls "deeply moving, gorgeously written...." and "Practicing," which Newsday hailed as "the book of a lifetime. "Three Minutes in Poland" has been made into a documentary film, "Three Minutes: A Lengthening," directed by Bianca Stigter and co-produced by Academy Award-winner Steve McQueen. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2021 and has screened at the Telluride, Toronto, DOC NYC, Amsterdam, and Sundance Film festivals, among many others. A graduate of the New England Conservatory-Tufts University double degree program. Glenn also holds a PhD from Stanford University in German Studies and Comparative Literature. His writing has been featured on NPR's "Weekend Edition," "To the Best of our Knowledge," "The Leonard Lopate Show," "West Coast Live," and elsewhere. He has taught at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, and NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He is a 2016-2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow and a 2019-2023 Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, Orange, CA. Find out about current projects and appearances at his website, www.glennkurtz.com.

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  • Errol Levine
    5.0 de 5 estrellasCompra verificada
    A unique view of the vanished world of an Eastern European shtetl
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 6 de abril de 2015
    This haunting Holocaust book by Glenn Kurtz brings vividly to life many characters in the pre-war Polish shtetl of Nasielsk, a small predominantly Jewish village just north of Warsaw. Mr. Kurtz’s grandparents had emigrated to the United States from Poland in the late 1880s... Ver más
    This haunting Holocaust book by Glenn Kurtz brings vividly to life many characters in the pre-war Polish shtetl of Nasielsk, a small predominantly Jewish village just north of Warsaw. Mr. Kurtz’s grandparents had emigrated to the United States from Poland in the late 1880s and prospered there. They then returned to Europe on a vacation in the summer of 1938 visiting major European capitals. However, they also took the opportunity to visit Nasielsk where the three-minutes of film footage on which this book is based were obtained by the visiting group. The silent images of the shtetl inhabitants contained in the footage do more than any written material to belie the Nazis' insane claim that these happy and simple people were ever involved in plotting the downfall of Germany or that they were warmongers or international bankers. Out of a population of 3,000, only 100 Jewish Nasielsk inhabitants survived the war some by following the retreating Russian army. Those that perished were subject to extreme sadism before their deaths and this makes one wonder anew how a civilized and cultured central European country, namely Germany, could descend into such depths of depravity.

    It is to Glenn Kurtz’s lasting credit that he realized the importance of this almost spoiled home movie the moment he first discovered it while clearing out the possessions of his deceased grandfather. He donated the footage to the Stephen Spielberg Film and Video Archive at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum where the film was restored with great care and eventually made available online in digital form. Barely a year later, Marcy Rosen, the descendant of a Nasielsk survivor, clicked the link and recognized the grinning face of her then 13-year-old grandfather who had elbowed his way close to David Kurtz’s movie camera. Marcy Rosen then contacted Mr. Kurtz and shortly after that he was in contact with her grandfather Morry Chandler, born Moshe Tuchendler, in Nasielsk. Morry who was then 87 years old turns out to be a remarkable character and it is quite obvious why he was among only 100 survivors of the Nazi annihilation of the Jewish population of Nasielsk.

    Morry has a remarkable memory and is able to identify in the movie footage many of the Nasielsk villagers he knew as a child. He also describes many colorful shtetl characters including Fishl Perelmuter who painted the murals in the synagogue, a village vagrant who decided to leave and declared that the shtetl would have to find another village idiot, the Glodeks who hosted circuses in their backyard and Chamnusen Tzvighaft, the village gravestone carver! Morry himself survived the war with the help of Polish Catholics who provided him with the birth certificate of a deceased Catholic boy.

    Through Morry, Mr. Kurtz was eventually able to track down and interview eight Nasielsk survivors who were alive in 2012. These elderly people, however, mostly have sharp memories and are able to expand on the social life and on the occupations of the village’s inhabitants. Mr. Kurtz’s work on documenting these people is quite remarkable. After four years of archival research and interviews spanning three continents he virtually brings to life the village of Nasielsk. Unfortunately, he cannot glean much more than the names, occupations and family relationships of some of the characters who can be identified in the footage. This makes the book somewhat difficult to read in parts since the reader often cannot differentiate among the individuals mentioned. However, every murdered Holocaust victim deserves to be remembered and Mr. Kurtz’s book does that for the good people of Nasielsk.

    I found this book to be deeply moving. When one reads magisterial works like Saul Friedlander’s important book on the Holocaust “Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination” one eventually becomes numbed by the statistics relating to how many Jews were murdered in dozens of places similar to Nasielsk and their humanity is somehow lost in the statistics. This book brings those murdered innocents to life in an extraordinary way.
    This haunting Holocaust book by Glenn Kurtz brings vividly to life many characters in the pre-war Polish shtetl of Nasielsk, a small predominantly Jewish village just north of Warsaw. Mr. Kurtz’s grandparents had emigrated to the United States from Poland in the late 1880s and prospered there. They then returned to Europe on a vacation in the summer of 1938 visiting major European capitals. However, they also took the opportunity to visit Nasielsk where the three-minutes of film footage on which this book is based were obtained by the visiting group. The silent images of the shtetl inhabitants contained in the footage do more than any written material to belie the Nazis' insane claim that these happy and simple people were ever involved in plotting the downfall of Germany or that they were warmongers or international bankers. Out of a population of 3,000, only 100 Jewish Nasielsk inhabitants survived the war some by following the retreating Russian army. Those that perished were subject to extreme sadism before their deaths and this makes one wonder anew how a civilized and cultured central European country, namely Germany, could descend into such depths of depravity.

    It is to Glenn Kurtz’s lasting credit that he realized the importance of this almost spoiled home movie the moment he first discovered it while clearing out the possessions of his deceased grandfather. He donated the footage to the Stephen Spielberg Film and Video Archive at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum where the film was restored with great care and eventually made available online in digital form. Barely a year later, Marcy Rosen, the descendant of a Nasielsk survivor, clicked the link and recognized the grinning face of her then 13-year-old grandfather who had elbowed his way close to David Kurtz’s movie camera. Marcy Rosen then contacted Mr. Kurtz and shortly after that he was in contact with her grandfather Morry Chandler, born Moshe Tuchendler, in Nasielsk. Morry who was then 87 years old turns out to be a remarkable character and it is quite obvious why he was among only 100 survivors of the Nazi annihilation of the Jewish population of Nasielsk.

    Morry has a remarkable memory and is able to identify in the movie footage many of the Nasielsk villagers he knew as a child. He also describes many colorful shtetl characters including Fishl Perelmuter who painted the murals in the synagogue, a village vagrant who decided to leave and declared that the shtetl would have to find another village idiot, the Glodeks who hosted circuses in their backyard and Chamnusen Tzvighaft, the village gravestone carver! Morry himself survived the war with the help of Polish Catholics who provided him with the birth certificate of a deceased Catholic boy.

    Through Morry, Mr. Kurtz was eventually able to track down and interview eight Nasielsk survivors who were alive in 2012. These elderly people, however, mostly have sharp memories and are able to expand on the social life and on the occupations of the village’s inhabitants. Mr. Kurtz’s work on documenting these people is quite remarkable. After four years of archival research and interviews spanning three continents he virtually brings to life the village of Nasielsk. Unfortunately, he cannot glean much more than the names, occupations and family relationships of some of the characters who can be identified in the footage. This makes the book somewhat difficult to read in parts since the reader often cannot differentiate among the individuals mentioned. However, every murdered Holocaust victim deserves to be remembered and Mr. Kurtz’s book does that for the good people of Nasielsk.

    I found this book to be deeply moving. When one reads magisterial works like Saul Friedlander’s important book on the Holocaust “Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination” one eventually becomes numbed by the statistics relating to how many Jews were murdered in dozens of places similar to Nasielsk and their humanity is somehow lost in the statistics. This book brings those murdered innocents to life in an extraordinary way.
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  • XarifaBedford
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    Worth Recording
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    Fascinating glimpse into film preservation, this book really got me thinking about the way we perceive history and the way we should take stock of our present. Fantastic book. Just what I wanted. A lovely historical, biographical, non-fiction survival story with a... Ver más
    Fascinating glimpse into film preservation, this book really got me thinking about the way we perceive history and the way we should take stock of our present. Fantastic book. Just what I wanted. A lovely historical, biographical, non-fiction survival story with a mystery element. Inspirational, poignant, educational and at times even humorous. Filled with beautiful photographs, this is a true book of substance. I wasn't 20 pages in before I bought another copy for my cousin, and told everyone at work to get a copy. The book gives a link to the discussion-guide which is also great.
    Fascinating glimpse into film preservation, this book really got me thinking about the way we perceive history and the way we should take stock of our present. Fantastic book. Just what I wanted. A lovely historical, biographical, non-fiction survival story with a mystery element. Inspirational, poignant, educational and at times even humorous. Filled with beautiful photographs, this is a true book of substance. I wasn't 20 pages in before I bought another copy for my cousin, and told everyone at work to get a copy. The book gives a link to the discussion-guide which is also great.
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    Film and faces from a destroyed past...
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    In summer of 1938, Liza and David Kurtz and three companions took a trip to Europe from their home in the United States. They toured central Europe and several of the places they visited were in Poland. Both had emigrated from small villages in Poland years before - David... Ver más
    In summer of 1938, Liza and David Kurtz and three companions took a trip to Europe from their home in the United States. They toured central Europe and several of the places they visited were in Poland. Both had emigrated from small villages in Poland years before - David from Nasielsk and Liza from Berezne. While traveling, David Kurtz took film of their various stops, including three minutes in one of the Polish villages they visited. This film, along with other family photos and albums followed them into retirement, until it was uncovered at the Kurtz's son's house. The film was not in very good condition but was able to be restored by technicians. And what a find this film turned out to be. The Kurtz's grandson - Glenn Kurtz - has written a book, "Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film" which explains how these lost images - once identified - opened up a world thought destroyed by the Nazis in the early 1940's.

    Glenn Kurtz is a member of what I call the "Second Generation"; they are the grandchildren of those who survived the Holocaust. MY generation is the "First Generation" and our stories have been told for the past 40 years of living with parents who went through hell in Europe. Now our children are searching and questioning and writing their books. (Another excellent "Second Generation" book is "Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind" by Sarah Wildman.)

    As the Kurtzes had been dead for many years, it was left for their daughter, Shirley, and their grandchildren to identify the place and people in the film. The three minutes of film of the Kurtzes returning to a village was misidentified at first as Liza Kurtz's home village of Berezne. Further examination correctly identified the village as Nasielsk. With help from various Holocaust museums and, of course, the internet, several people and places in the film were identified and Glenn Kurtz set out to speak to these survivors, some 70 years after the filming. Several were still living, though quite old, and they were surprised to see pictures of themselves and their families and friends from 1938. Memories were stoked and stories were told of this time before Europe fell apart and most of the people in the film were murdered. Stories told by survivors led to other people from Nasielsk and their children being identified as still alive. Kurtz also writes about his visit to the current-day village of Nasielsk, where the Jews of the past were just that, of the past.

    Was it chance or luck that a few of the people in Nasielsk, Poland shown in the film gleefully greeting their visitors from the United States in 1938 survived the mass killings and deportations to Treblinka and Auschwitz? Did those people - both living in Poland and visiting - have any idea that slightly a year after these pictures were taken that the lives of those remaining in Poland would be torn apart? Very few people can predict the future and often what is predicted is considered outlandish and impossible. The villagers of Nasielsk - some who had left for Palestine and to other safe havens - could not have envisioned the wholesale slaughter of the Jews of Europe.

    Glenn Kurtz has written an excellent look at a doomed Polish village. It is both an interesting and horrifying look at the past. At what once was and those people who made it what it was.
    In summer of 1938, Liza and David Kurtz and three companions took a trip to Europe from their home in the United States. They toured central Europe and several of the places they visited were in Poland. Both had emigrated from small villages in Poland years before - David from Nasielsk and Liza from Berezne. While traveling, David Kurtz took film of their various stops, including three minutes in one of the Polish villages they visited. This film, along with other family photos and albums followed them into retirement, until it was uncovered at the Kurtz's son's house. The film was not in very good condition but was able to be restored by technicians. And what a find this film turned out to be. The Kurtz's grandson - Glenn Kurtz - has written a book, "Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film" which explains how these lost images - once identified - opened up a world thought destroyed by the Nazis in the early 1940's.

    Glenn Kurtz is a member of what I call the "Second Generation"; they are the grandchildren of those who survived the Holocaust. MY generation is the "First Generation" and our stories have been told for the past 40 years of living with parents who went through hell in Europe. Now our children are searching and questioning and writing their books. (Another excellent "Second Generation" book is "Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind" by Sarah Wildman.)

    As the Kurtzes had been dead for many years, it was left for their daughter, Shirley, and their grandchildren to identify the place and people in the film. The three minutes of film of the Kurtzes returning to a village was misidentified at first as Liza Kurtz's home village of Berezne. Further examination correctly identified the village as Nasielsk. With help from various Holocaust museums and, of course, the internet, several people and places in the film were identified and Glenn Kurtz set out to speak to these survivors, some 70 years after the filming. Several were still living, though quite old, and they were surprised to see pictures of themselves and their families and friends from 1938. Memories were stoked and stories were told of this time before Europe fell apart and most of the people in the film were murdered. Stories told by survivors led to other people from Nasielsk and their children being identified as still alive. Kurtz also writes about his visit to the current-day village of Nasielsk, where the Jews of the past were just that, of the past.

    Was it chance or luck that a few of the people in Nasielsk, Poland shown in the film gleefully greeting their visitors from the United States in 1938 survived the mass killings and deportations to Treblinka and Auschwitz? Did those people - both living in Poland and visiting - have any idea that slightly a year after these pictures were taken that the lives of those remaining in Poland would be torn apart? Very few people can predict the future and often what is predicted is considered outlandish and impossible. The villagers of Nasielsk - some who had left for Palestine and to other safe havens - could not have envisioned the wholesale slaughter of the Jews of Europe.

    Glenn Kurtz has written an excellent look at a doomed Polish village. It is both an interesting and horrifying look at the past. At what once was and those people who made it what it was.
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  • ganddw42
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    "Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering the lost world in a 1938 family film." by Glenn Kurtz. An excellent read 'who were they...and what happened to them?' kind of book. The book traces the inquiry of Glenn Kurtz into the origins of the people in an old... Ver más
    "Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering the lost world in a 1938 family film." by Glenn Kurtz. An excellent read 'who were they...and what happened to them?' kind of book. The book traces the inquiry of Glenn Kurtz into the origins of the people in an old family film taken by his Grandparents on a trip to eastern Poland in 1938. The author takes us on a journey that involves his Grandparents who made a trip to eastern Poland in 1938 to visit their ancestral home they left in the 1800's, an old film that needs restored for the Holocaust Memorial because it shows life in a Jewish village that was destroyed in WWII, the process used to restore that film that was extremely interesting, and his journey to find out who the people were that leads down many different paths. It gives a good background of his family, Jewish family life at the time, what Jewish village life was like prior to WWII, the religious traditions involved, that of the region he is examining in eastern Poland, the history of the region, the small village his Grandparents take photos of that one of his Grandparents was born in. It also involves the impact the occupation of Poland had on the Jewish population. So the search begins for the people in the photos and where they are at today? It is a fast read, that keeps the reader engrossed in finding out the answers. The only argument I have against the book, which is why I only gave it four stars, it often gets tedious near the end with all the (what appears to be) extra people that are being brought into the story. It gets to the point of being confusing as to who is who and what relationship they have to the story? But, I realize that's just my opinion. Otherwise it is a good book. The title in itself is what drew me to the book. It turned out to be money well spent, one of the better books I have read recently.
    "Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering the lost world in a 1938 family film." by Glenn Kurtz. An excellent read 'who were they...and what happened to them?' kind of book. The book traces the inquiry of Glenn Kurtz into the origins of the people in an old family film taken by his Grandparents on a trip to eastern Poland in 1938. The author takes us on a journey that involves his Grandparents who made a trip to eastern Poland in 1938 to visit their ancestral home they left in the 1800's, an old film that needs restored for the Holocaust Memorial because it shows life in a Jewish village that was destroyed in WWII, the process used to restore that film that was extremely interesting, and his journey to find out who the people were that leads down many different paths. It gives a good background of his family, Jewish family life at the time, what Jewish village life was like prior to WWII, the religious traditions involved, that of the region he is examining in eastern Poland, the history of the region, the small village his Grandparents take photos of that one of his Grandparents was born in. It also involves the impact the occupation of Poland had on the Jewish population. So the search begins for the people in the photos and where they are at today? It is a fast read, that keeps the reader engrossed in finding out the answers. The only argument I have against the book, which is why I only gave it four stars, it often gets tedious near the end with all the (what appears to be) extra people that are being brought into the story. It gets to the point of being confusing as to who is who and what relationship they have to the story? But, I realize that's just my opinion. Otherwise it is a good book. The title in itself is what drew me to the book. It turned out to be money well spent, one of the better books I have read recently.
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  • karen Adele
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    Contemplation of Memory
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    I heard Glenn Kurtz at a screening of his documentary based on his book which I have read to learn more about his journey. The book and documentary are inspired by a 3 minute segment of a home movie made by Glenn’s grandfather in 1938 on a visit to his hometown of Nasielsk,... Ver más
    I heard Glenn Kurtz at a screening of his documentary based on his book which I have read to learn more about his journey. The book and documentary are inspired by a 3 minute segment of a home movie made by Glenn’s grandfather in 1938 on a visit to his hometown of Nasielsk, Poland. Glenn found the footage, had it restored through the USHMM, began a process of compiling information about the town. Out of approximately 3000 Jews, 100 survived the Shoah. Out of sheer chance, Glenn is connected with a man filmed, one of the few still living survivors. Kurtz is determined to identify as many as possible. In 1938 the people filmed are mostly young, filled with enthusiasm as they watch an American visitor film their town. Kurtz works to identify everyone. He travels the world to find Nasielskers. In the process he recreates a family of townsfolk. We learn about life in shtetl Poland before the German invasion as well as the horrific future that awaits. Found fragments are carried into new contexts. In triggering memories, the fragments reconnect people in a rich, deep contemplation of memory. Read the book, see the documentary. You will learn and you will keep memories of people long lost alive.
    I heard Glenn Kurtz at a screening of his documentary based on his book which I have read to learn more about his journey. The book and documentary are inspired by a 3 minute segment of a home movie made by Glenn’s grandfather in 1938 on a visit to his hometown of Nasielsk, Poland. Glenn found the footage, had it restored through the USHMM, began a process of compiling information about the town. Out of approximately 3000 Jews, 100 survived the Shoah. Out of sheer chance, Glenn is connected with a man filmed, one of the few still living survivors. Kurtz is determined to identify as many as possible. In 1938 the people filmed are mostly young, filled with enthusiasm as they watch an American visitor film their town. Kurtz works to identify everyone. He travels the world to find Nasielskers. In the process he recreates a family of townsfolk. We learn about life in shtetl Poland before the German invasion as well as the horrific future that awaits. Found fragments are carried into new contexts. In triggering memories, the fragments reconnect people in a rich, deep contemplation of memory. Read the book, see the documentary. You will learn and you will keep memories of people long lost alive.
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  • S&D Humeston
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    Beautiful
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 3 de febrero de 2015
    This book opened up a world I could relate to, before the Holocaust. The story of pre-Shoah life in a relatively modern (by 1938 standards) town in Poland is riveting. As the last remaining survivors of Jewish Nasielsk remember their childhoods, and as I view the happy... Ver más
    This book opened up a world I could relate to, before the Holocaust. The story of pre-Shoah life in a relatively modern (by 1938 standards) town in Poland is riveting. As the last remaining survivors of Jewish Nasielsk remember their childhoods, and as I view the happy film which is the center of this story, I can imagine the every day life of these people. Yes, they were victimized by many of the Poles in their periphery, but "normal" life wasn't lived with the huge shadow of the death camps as we, who look back and know what was coming, might see it. And it also wasn't a "typical" romanticized shtetl. It was a world that would have disappeared in time anyway, but the people would have all survived to look back and reminisce, much as we do today, with nostalgia, but with no violent total decimation, and without the abrupt and sudden irretrievable loss of all their loved ones. Written with the kind of wistful and persistent searching for the soul of the past, the same mindset that I have and have not found among other people, I immediately identified with the author's quest. I, too, have thought about the minutes before and after a photo was shot. I, too, have looked deep into the eyes of those in a photo or video and wondered about all the minutia that a life entails, that can't be discerned by a moment in time. Beautiful. Beautiful in that some survivors could be comforted in however small a way, by a photo of someone they last saw in 1939, by a photo they did not have access to until they were woven into this entire series of events engendered by the discovery of an old pre-war home movie. Beautiful in the wonderful sensitivity of the writer. Just. beautiful.
    This book opened up a world I could relate to, before the Holocaust. The story of pre-Shoah life in a relatively modern (by 1938 standards) town in Poland is riveting. As the last remaining survivors of Jewish Nasielsk remember their childhoods, and as I view the happy film which is the center of this story, I can imagine the every day life of these people. Yes, they were victimized by many of the Poles in their periphery, but "normal" life wasn't lived with the huge shadow of the death camps as we, who look back and know what was coming, might see it. And it also wasn't a "typical" romanticized shtetl. It was a world that would have disappeared in time anyway, but the people would have all survived to look back and reminisce, much as we do today, with nostalgia, but with no violent total decimation, and without the abrupt and sudden irretrievable loss of all their loved ones. Written with the kind of wistful and persistent searching for the soul of the past, the same mindset that I have and have not found among other people, I immediately identified with the author's quest. I, too, have thought about the minutes before and after a photo was shot. I, too, have looked deep into the eyes of those in a photo or video and wondered about all the minutia that a life entails, that can't be discerned by a moment in time. Beautiful. Beautiful in that some survivors could be comforted in however small a way, by a photo of someone they last saw in 1939, by a photo they did not have access to until they were woven into this entire series of events engendered by the discovery of an old pre-war home movie. Beautiful in the wonderful sensitivity of the writer. Just. beautiful.
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    interesting book
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    This is not about Poland, but about Jews in Poland. 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust...almost 3 million were Polish Jews.
    Calificado en Estados Unidos el 19 de noviembre de 2017
    My parents came from a village much like the one Kurtz's folks did. He did a fantastic job of following up clues in 3 minutes of old movie film. I also like that when he used a Yiddish word or someone spoke a line, he translated it. It gets repetitive, but for... Ver más
    My parents came from a village much like the one Kurtz's folks did. He did a fantastic job of following up clues in 3 minutes of old movie film. I also like that when he used a Yiddish word or someone spoke a line, he translated it. It gets repetitive, but for someone whose background is from places like this, it may be an eye opener. He repeats the relationship of the people to each other, the town, or his grandparents. Someone casually reading this might get annoyed at that...I found it considerate. For someone that's not connected in any way to these eastern European towns, the loss of lives, the thoroughness of the Nazi plan for the Jews, it will still teach the bravery of those who survived.
    My parents came from a village much like the one Kurtz's folks did. He did a fantastic job of following up clues in 3 minutes of old movie film. I also like that when he used a Yiddish word or someone spoke a line, he translated it. It gets repetitive, but for someone whose background is from places like this, it may be an eye opener. He repeats the relationship of the people to each other, the town, or his grandparents. Someone casually reading this might get annoyed at that...I found it considerate. For someone that's not connected in any way to these eastern European towns, the loss of lives, the thoroughness of the Nazi plan for the Jews, it will still teach the bravery of those who survived.
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  • JacquiK
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    Truth is more amazing than fiction - couldn't put this down
    Calificado en Reino Unido el 17 de junio de 2016
    This is an amazing book. I bought this after seeing the film, and a lecture Glen Kurtz gave about the film and the quest to find out all he could about the town and the people featured in it, on UTube after following a link posted on Facebook. Non- fiction is rarely...Ver más
    This is an amazing book. I bought this after seeing the film, and a lecture Glen Kurtz gave about the film and the quest to find out all he could about the town and the people featured in it, on UTube after following a link posted on Facebook. Non- fiction is rarely "can't put down" but I couldn't put this book down. It is a well written and took me on an emotional journey as well as a factual one. There were moments of pleasure and literally 'Oh My God that's amazing!!', and many moments of tears streaming down my face...... Yes, sometimes in sadness but sometimes in pure emotion at what Glenn Kurtz was able to achieve because of his relentless quest to uncover every possible survivor, every possible name, fact and story about the Jewish population of 3000 in a town in Poland who, a year after three minutes of his grandfather's holiday film was shot, would be decimated. After the war maybe 100 survived. Many fewer survive to tell their story today, but Glenn Kurtz found them. This is not easy reading. There are uncomfortable truths. I'd say there are no happy endings here, but there are stories of amazing survival that lead to just a few people rebuilding their lives as refugees in a foreign country. This is a book I will keep always and read many times. My copy came from Brooklyn library all the way to North Wales and was in perfect condition. That's perhaps a shame as it shows not many people read this particular copy. Please read this book- for the emotional roller coaster, for an amazing true story, and to remind yourself that the holocaust happened to ordinary people like you who lived ordinary lives like yours with ordinary concerns, politics, squabbles - just like you, until one day some people in another country decided you were to be expunged from the earth and subjected to unbelievable brutality on the way - while much of the rest of the world did nothing to help.
    This is an amazing book. I bought this after seeing the film, and a lecture Glen Kurtz gave about the film and the quest to find out all he could about the town and the people featured in it, on UTube after following a link posted on Facebook. Non- fiction is rarely "can't put down" but I couldn't put this book down.

    It is a well written and took me on an emotional journey as well as a factual one. There were moments of pleasure and literally 'Oh My God that's amazing!!', and many moments of tears streaming down my face...... Yes, sometimes in sadness but sometimes in pure emotion at what Glenn Kurtz was able to achieve because of his relentless quest to uncover every possible survivor, every possible name, fact and story about the Jewish population of 3000 in a town in Poland who, a year after three minutes of his grandfather's holiday film was shot, would be decimated. After the war maybe 100 survived. Many fewer survive to tell their story today, but Glenn Kurtz found them.

    This is not easy reading. There are uncomfortable truths. I'd say there are no happy endings here, but there are stories of amazing survival that lead to just a few people rebuilding their lives as refugees in a foreign country. This is a book I will keep always and read many times.

    My copy came from Brooklyn library all the way to North Wales and was in perfect condition. That's perhaps a shame as it shows not many people read this particular copy.

    Please read this book- for the emotional roller coaster, for an amazing true story, and to remind yourself that the holocaust happened to ordinary people like you who lived ordinary lives like yours with ordinary concerns, politics, squabbles - just like you, until one day some people in another country decided you were to be expunged from the earth and subjected to unbelievable brutality on the way - while much of the rest of the world did nothing to help.

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  • Susan B Kurtz
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    One of the best.
    Calificado en Australia el 9 de diciembre de 2014
    Glenn Kurtz’ book “Three Minutes in Poland” owes its existence to a timely discovery of an old can of film. It was shot during his grandfather’s’ visit, with two friends, to the Polish village his grandfather came from. The film was shot in 1938, just one year before the...Ver más
    Glenn Kurtz’ book “Three Minutes in Poland” owes its existence to a timely discovery of an old can of film. It was shot during his grandfather’s’ visit, with two friends, to the Polish village his grandfather came from. The film was shot in 1938, just one year before the Nazis invaded Poland and allows us a glimpse of pre-war Jewish life in a typical small Polish village. The following year all Jewish life would be destroyed by the Nazis. That there are still a handful of survivors to give testimony is a miracle. That Glenn Kurtz was able to assemble such an epic book is testament to his unwavering commitment to bringing to life this slice of history.
    Glenn Kurtz’ book “Three Minutes in Poland” owes its existence to a timely discovery of an old can of film. It was shot during his grandfather’s’ visit, with two friends, to the Polish village his grandfather came from.
    The film was shot in 1938, just one year before the Nazis invaded Poland and allows us a glimpse of pre-war Jewish life in a typical small Polish village.
    The following year all Jewish life would be destroyed by the Nazis. That there are still a handful of survivors to give testimony is a miracle.
    That Glenn Kurtz was able to assemble such an epic book is testament to his unwavering commitment to bringing to life this slice of history.

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    A beautiful story, a deeply sweet and generous gift, this huge, wonderful project. Big-hearted. Lovely. I wish more people pursued dreams like this. Wonderful.
    A beautiful story, a deeply sweet and generous gift, this huge, wonderful project. Big-hearted. Lovely. I wish more people pursued dreams like this. Wonderful.

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    Heart rending tale.
    Heart rending tale.

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    New Information in intimate detail about horrific actions against Polish Jews
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    I am thrilled with it! I can reference it with my own search of family. His story is so important for people to read and see. What a story!
    I am thrilled with it! I can reference it with my own search of family. His story is so important for people to read and see. What a story!

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