בידספיריט | שלוש דקות בפולין : גילוי

שלוש דקות בפולין : גילוי עולם אבוד בסרט משפחתי משנת 1938. מאת גלן קורץ. 2014. מפה, צילומים, פקסימילים. אנגלית. - Three minutes in Poland : discovering a lost world in a 1938 family film - By Glenn Kurtz. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. x pp., 419 pp. Soft cover. Map, photos, facsimiles. ”Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, my grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16mm 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—annihilated in the Holocaust. Three Minutes in Poland traces my four-year journey to identify the people in my grandfather’s haunting images. My search took me across the United States, to Canada, England, Poland and Israel, to archives, film preservation laboratories, and an abandoned Luftwaffe airfield. Ultimately, I encountered 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, Three Minutes in Poland 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. Pursuing the significance of this brief film became a riveting exploration of memory, loss, and improbable survival [Glenn Kurtz's site]”. 21 cm., few aging stains. Good-Very Good Condition.