Three Minutes: A Lengthening

[kernelbogey]

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

This quietly imposing film takes a three minute fragment of film of Nasielsk, Poland taken in August 1938 by David Kurtz, an emigre visiting his grandfather's home village, which was discovered by his grandson in a closet. Using only images retrieved from this fragment, it tells the tale of the Jewish community of the village of Nasielsk, obliterated by the Holocaust.

[kernelbogey]

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

This quietly imposing film takes a three minute fragment of film of Nasielsk, Poland taken in August 1938 by David Kurtz, an emigre visiting his grandfather's home village, which was discovered by his grandson in a closet. Using only images retrieved from this fragment, it tells the tale of the Jewish community of the village of Nasielsk, obliterated by the Holocaust.

This film is worth seeing partly because it is artistically excellent; and also because it brings the notion of 'The Holocaust' - which can seem abstract - back to individuals who were murdered. The faces of around 150 men women and children, almost all anonymous, appear in the film. All but seven (IIRC) had perished within two years.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks for finding this, KB. Somehow I knew that somebody would have discovered the identity of the grocery store owner.

[kernelbogey]

Thanks for finding this, KB. Somehow I knew that somebody would have discovered the identity of the grocery store owner.

Amazing detective work!