International Holocaust Remembrance Day

“Three Minutes in Poland” author Glenn Kurtz discovers a Lost World in a 1938 family film revealing his Grandfather’s David Kurtz story.

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. 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 four-year journey to identify the people in his grandfather’s haunting images. 

Glenn Kurtz holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University and was a 2016 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. He has taught at San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, and Stanford. He has written several critically-acclaimed books, including Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music, and the movie: Three Minutes. He lives in New York City.

“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

The event is FREE of charge, however, it is necessary to register using the link.

The event will be held in English.

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