Caught on film, a precious ‘Three Minutes’ in 1938 Jewish Poland
by Peter Rainer
Sep 20, 2022
2 minutes
Thirteen years ago, writer Glenn Kurtz discovered in Palm Beach, Florida, a roll of previously unseen 16 mm footage shot by his deceased grandfather, David Kurtz. The reel turned out to contain three minutes of rare color film of a predominantly Jewish town, Nasielsk, Poland, about 30 miles north of Warsaw. David, who had immigrated years earlier to America, had taken a tour of European capitals in 1938 and, with
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