Drie minuten in Polen
De ontdekking van een verloren wereld aan de hand van een familiefilm uit 1938
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<b>The author’s search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather’s 1938 home movie</b> Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author’s grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage would become a memorial to an entire community—an entire culture—that was annihilated in the Holocaust. <i>Three Minutes in Poland</i> traces Glenn Kurtz’s remarkable four-year journey to identify the people in his grandfather’s haunting images. His search takes him across the United States; to Canada, England, Poland, and Israel; to archives, film preservation laboratories, and an abandoned Luftwaffe airfield. Ultimately, Kurtz locates seven living survivors from this lost town, including an eighty-six-year-old man who appears in the film as a thirteen-year-old boy. Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents, and artifacts, <i>Three Minutes in Poland</i> tells the rich, funny, harrowing, and surprisingly intertwined stories of these seven survivors and their Polish hometown. Originally a travel souvenir, David Kurtz’s home movie became the sole remaining record of a vibrant town on the brink of catastrophe. From this brief film, Glenn Kurtz creates a riveting exploration of memory, loss, and improbable survival—a monument to a lost world.
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Drie minuten in Polen, Glenn Kurtz
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
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- Titel
- Drie minuten in Polen
- Untertitel
- De ontdekking van een verloren wereld aan de hand van een familiefilm uit 1938
- Sprache
- Niederländisch
- Autor*innen
- Glenn Kurtz
- Verlag
- Ambo/Anthos Uitgevers
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 456
- ISBN10
- 9026332831
- ISBN13
- 9789026332838
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Zweiter Weltkrieg, Geschichte Europas, Holocaust, Jüdische Literatur, Polen (Staat), Osteuropa
- Beschreibung
- <b>The author’s search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather’s 1938 home movie</b> Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author’s grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage would become a memorial to an entire community—an entire culture—that was annihilated in the Holocaust. <i>Three Minutes in Poland</i> traces Glenn Kurtz’s remarkable four-year journey to identify the people in his grandfather’s haunting images. His search takes him across the United States; to Canada, England, Poland, and Israel; to archives, film preservation laboratories, and an abandoned Luftwaffe airfield. Ultimately, Kurtz locates seven living survivors from this lost town, including an eighty-six-year-old man who appears in the film as a thirteen-year-old boy. Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents, and artifacts, <i>Three Minutes in Poland</i> tells the rich, funny, harrowing, and surprisingly intertwined stories of these seven survivors and their Polish hometown. Originally a travel souvenir, David Kurtz’s home movie became the sole remaining record of a vibrant town on the brink of catastrophe. From this brief film, Glenn Kurtz creates a riveting exploration of memory, loss, and improbable survival—a monument to a lost world.