Glenn Kurtz

Three minutes in Poland traces the author's four-year journey to identify the people in the three-minute segment of his grandparents’ 1938 vacation-film footage of Nasielsk, Poland, where there was a thriving Jewish community before the Second World War. Intrigued by the faces and curious about the lives, Kurtz, the author of Practicing, set about tracking down the identities and descendants of those in the movie, with stirring results. Rarely seen archival footage will punctuate an intimate conversation between the author and USHMM Film Researcher Leslie Swift. Co-sponsored with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Glenn Kurtz visits Congregation Beth Shalom to discuss his new book Three minutes in Poland. When he stumbles upon an old family film in his parents’ closet in Florida, Glenn 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. 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. Glenn Kurtz is a graduate of the New England Conservatory-Tufts University double degree program and holds a PhD from Stanford University in German studies and comparative literature. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Lost, ZYZZYVA, Tema Celeste, and elsewhere. He has taught at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, and New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He lives in New York City.

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Glenn Kurtz visits Mayor Brown to discuss his new book Three minutes in Poland. When he stumbles upon an old family film in his parents’ closet in Florida, Glenn 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. 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. Glenn Kurtz is a graduate of the New England Conservatory-Tufts University double degree program and holds a PhD from Stanford University in German studies and comparative literature. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Lost, ZYZZYVA, Tema Celeste, and elsewhere. He has taught at Stanford University, San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, and New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He lives in New York City.

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