Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2015
- Glenn Kurtz discusses his book, “Three Minutes in Poland,“ inspired by a three minute film that his grandfather had made in a predominantly Jewish town in Poland one year before WWII broke out. The book consists of interviews, photographs, documents, and artifacts that tell the stories of seven survivors that lived in this town. [10/2015] [Show ID: 29614]
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I am not Jewish. But my father (baby at the time) and family left Spain when Franco started to attack his own people. I can appreciate how much time, effort, & love has been put into this. The people in your grandparents movie transcend time. Thank you for sharing this with the world. Never Again.
I have chill bumps listening to how he tracked down so much information and was able to bring joy to people who hadn’t seen images of friends and relatives in decades.
In a few short years all those voices will be quiet but may they never remain silent.
The children smiling , a treasure
Wonderful amazing talk. Thank you. I just saw the recent NYT article about the film clip and it got my interest; went to RUclips search and found this talk by Mr Kurtz. I am very very moved as I type. Thank you as well UCTV for posting.
It fills me with sadness when I see the crowd of faces in the crowd...those jostling to be in the eye of the camera...whether smiling or not,...they get to me. I think of how they must have died...what they were to go through so very shortly. They would soon be plunged into hell itself...their innocence in this and other "before the war" films gets to me...it's so incredibly heavy and sad.
Haunting. Just finished the book about this. We need to learn from the past and often we do not. thank you Glenn Kurtz.
I feel for this people...
I really enjoyed that. Great lesson about how war separeted families and neighbours. Greetings from central Poland!
Thank you for preserving these precious memories.
One of the best presentations on RUclips I've ever found.
Glenn Kurtz has informed my cousin in a phone conversation that the restaurant interior briefly shown at the beginning of this film was owned by my grandfather, Leibish Owsianko, who moved to Israel in 1936. He was a prominent member of the religious Zionist Party, Misrahi.
so interesting and incredible. my grandmother grew up in nieselsk as well. all these years i´ve wanted to know about this town.
Lucky guy. However I heard that Israel was so dangerous place, full of violence, that some Jews even returned to Poland after couple of years there.
A beautiful story. 🌹
This is just amazing. What a adventure to discover all those connections and connect faces with actual people!! Fantastic lecture, thank you
Absolutely amazing talk & history!!!
Simply incredible…He brought to light for me something that’s very true…Our fragments combined create a memory
Thank you for taking all the time and putting this history together.
Heart wrenching
I have just watched the documentary "Three Minutes in Poland" on the BBC, no talking heads but a riveting watch. This programme will stay with me for a long time.
Same here, I'm almost speechless
This is incredibly inspiring way to honor those who lost their lives during the evil holocaust. Thank You 🙏 for sharing.
Absolutely remarkable presentation.
11/2019. This is truly amazing. Thank you for posting.
So overwhelming to hear the coded cries for help in the letters sent to America from the Warsaw ghetto.
Glenn is a very good speaker. Nice presentation.
It makes me sad to think what the people had to go through. My family is of Polish descent, and they can't stand what people were put through. My dad said more, but I can't repeat it.
Great watch! My family " What`s left of it" stayed in Poland after the war and after 68 repressions.
Thank you. Wonderful ❤
Thank you for doing this!
We should keep showing these films today to demonstrate what happened so quickly and no one acted. Sadly, the same as happening today. Persecution and deliberate dismantling of a people who have had their rights, land and possessions taken from them and are forced to live in an Apartheid situation. History really does repeat itself.
My grandparents lived about half hour away from Nasielsk, and owned a remotely located big farm. They hid three people during the war for various periods. All three were from the Nasielsk Jewish community, mixed marriages. One was remembered by my grandmother as an opera singer, a daughter of a store owner, if I remember correctly. My grandparents risked an execution by Germans for hiding Jews. Germans executed whole families, with children, for this. Only in Poland there was a German law like this.
Did you contact the Yad Vashem Holocaust Center in Israel? As a religious Jewish son of a mother from Bistrita, Romania, and a father from Osweicim, Poland, both of whom lost their entire families in Auschwitz, I am pained by the many stories my father told me of anti-Semitic Poles who helped the Nazis, as well as by the hatred I felt from many young Poles today when I recently spent a week in Poland. But I am also aware that there are 7,177 Poles listed on Yad Vashem's list of "Righteous Among the Nations," and that each one of these, as you correctly noted, knew that not only he or she, but perhaps their entire family would be killed if they were caught by the Germans, because they were considered to be the lowest race except for the Jews according to the sick German racial beliefs. And this list did not include others, like the woman from Osweicim who used to clean my grandparents' home every Friday, and who on her own obtained two false passports for my father's sisters, and travelled with them to the ghetto in Bedzin where all the Osweicim Jews were deported to, so that my aunts could escape the ghetto and live as non-Jewish Poles on the outside. Sadly, they refused to leave their families, and were killed in Auschwitz less than one year later. If you have some information and remember any names, perhaps your grandparents can also be listed as Righteous Gentiles who performed the greatest sacrifice possible to save other human beings. In any case, you should be very proud.
You are a troll and racist@@lsmart
I am very concerned that you had such an awful experience at your recent trip to Poland. Do you mind elaborating just a bit.
Do you know why there were so many ppl of Jewish descent in Poland prior to WW2?
@@lsmart My grandparents never expected any gratification, nor applause for their actions. It was what they had to do according to their Christian beliefs. I know countless Poles who took part in massive Jewish rescue operations during the II World War, and did nor report it to Yad Vashem. It is not about being praised, or acknowledged. Remember that my grandparents, as farm owners in pre war Poland, faced lots of persecution from fellow Poles, even neighbors, who would report them to Germans for any reason, just to possibly get a reward for it. My grandfather always spoke of one neighbor, who crawled on ground at night, spying on my grandfather, to report illegal animal slaughter to Germans. Remember, that Germans invaded our country and enacted laws, that were the laws of the country then. For example it was illegal to help Jews. It was illegal for farmers to slaughter animals, without German administrative consent. All animals were recorded and treated as future army food resources. So some neighbors would report farmers slaughtering their own pig for food , to Germans, in hopes of a reward. Economic differences were huge at that time, and there were a lot of people, who would kill for a loaf of bread.... Similarly, in Western Europe there was a law enacted by Germans, that all Jews must be packed and sent to wherever Germans enacted. And the "law abiding" Western European population did it, packed the Jews, and sent them to Treblinka for example. In Poland most of the population grossly disregarded German occupation laws. That is why Germans had to enact an additional law, a capital punishment for helping Jews, because otherwise they would not be able to follow with their extermination. So there was a GREAT difference between how the Poles, and the rest of Europe acted to German invasion, and their laws.
@@B.Mega.D I spent 5 days in Poland with my wife and 2 daughters, primarily for serious emotional purposes, visiting Holocaust-related sights (some directly related to my father's family), as well as numerous holy Jewish sites like cemeteries and synagogues. I was in the Warsaw, Lublin, and Cracow areas, as well as many smaller cities of Jewish historical interest. As an Orthodox rabbi, I was immediately identifiable as a Jew. On 4 occasions, people shouted anti-Semitic curses. On one occasion, my (extremely kind) non-Jewish Polish driver embarassingly explained to me that he was being shouted at for working for dirty Jews. But beyond these instances, the cold and steely-eyed loks I got whenever I asked for directions or asked for help in a store was literally painful. After a while, whenever we stopped at a supermarket, my daughters asked me to stay in the car, because when they went in alone they could not be identified as Jews, and thus did not get this treatment. What was most startling is that this took place in Warsaw and Cracow, the two cities most heavily visited by Jewish tourists, not some small village where they never see a Jewish face. When we went from Poland to spend the next week in Italy, the difference was incredible. Suddenly we could breathe freely, and we felt as if we were one among equals.
As for your 2nd question, ever since the mid-13th century, when the king changed the law to permit Jews in Poland, it became the biggest home for Jews in Europe. Although the Poles were heavily anti-Semitic, led by the Polish Catholic Church's open hatred for Jews, they played a key role in the Polish economy. When WWII started, there were over 3 million Jews in Poland, and they were 40% of the pop. in the capital of Warsaw. Unfortunately, as soon as the Germans occupied Poland, even before they made the ghettos, there were numerous pogroms in which the entire Jewish population was killed or burned alive by their long-time Polish neighbors. And when about 50,000 survivors returned to Poland after the war, a brutal pogrom in Kielce, Poland, led by the police and security chiefs, convinced the remaining survivors to leave, and all Jewish houses, factories, and other properties were taken by Poles for free.
Outstanding!
Inspiring. Thank you
The loss of the community in this shtetl and thousands of other shtels in Eastern Europe is not just a Jewish loss. The whole of humanity lost a piece of us and it is a void that can never be filled. Not in a 1000 years. An eternal gaping hole in our collective humanity.
Good stuff. I love this type of research.
Wow - I watched the documentary on Storyville yesterday and came here to search for more information. An incredible glimpse into the lives of the residents of Nasielsk and what happened to them. Thank you.
I have a relative who visited Zborow Poland (now Ukraine) and produced similar film in the 1930s. It can be found online
Very interesting . Thanks .
it is so important to keep their memories alive...God bless their soles
Thank you
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Maakt veel emoties los! Great !!!
mooi boek, mooi verhaal, thanks
Awesome.
The world back then, the nature of the relationships, the special flavour of the little town, is never to be found anymore, anywhere. The world has changed, and they never participated in the change.
now in USa many people have closer relationships with dogs than with other people.
There is nothing about them that is different than any people. I don’t understand why. It breaks my heart so.
The horror is, we can't know what's coming.
Good video.
My 1st comment disappeared. The girl in the flowered dress @15:11 looks like a carbon copy of me. It's odd that I stumbled upon this video. My Mother was ashamed of our Jewish bloodline & she never spoke about it. It was a slap-able offense to bring the subject up. Many times, I would ask & all I would get is a slap across my face. May she rest in peace. Thank you for sharing this video.
Sherry Dee G*d is waiting for you to come to him . Study your Jewish roots!!! And be proud!!!!✡️🇮🇱✡️
jesus christ that's awful!
@@extanegautham8950 Times were different & people did what they felt they had to do to protect their families & themselves from being hunted down like animals. I cannot understand the why's, but I do accept it as something only they could comprehend.
@@missadel20 I shun all organized religions & thought processes. I am proud to be me. My days of endless studying are done. I no longer have a need to know. I just accept life as it comes. When I die, I will get the answers to all of my silly human questions.
@@sherrydee7880 that are silly human questions huh??? Lol. Investigating your heritage may bring you happiness and joy to the extent you have never known before just think about it!!! And may Hashem bless and keep you
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the jewish minority in Poland has lost 3000 000 persons, they did not died for the same reasons, anyway all victims need a memorial
I wish I had done this before almost everyone from Wlodawa was gone.
Are the pictures of Maurice's family that he left on the farm available to see anywhere?
My mother had a cousin Rose Kugel on Long island so I do not know if they are related to this film.
Kubeł means bucket.
An entire village, and the people just disappeared. And hundreds of other villages also disappeared. All Jewish villages. This film reminds us all of what happened.
@@aneta6251 Only Germans?
With the efficient help of some thousand antisemitic Polish neighbours:
www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/poland-holocaust-death-camps/552455/
ruclips.net/video/0zOdb9ythfE/видео.html
ArrigAutist Thank you for that reference. God bless!
@@OmmerSyssel And with the efficient help of some non-antisemitic Jewish 'neighbours':
www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/orderpolice.html
@@OmmerSyssel don't forget about many Jews who where colaborated with Germans and Soviets. History isn't Black nad White.
@@OmmerSyssel More people collaborated in France and Lithuania. Lithuania lost over 95% of its pre-war Jewish population, more than any country affected by the Holocaust.
It is little bit shocking that guy, who survived on provided by a hero false documents, didn't come back and didn't set the score. Lack of gratefulness?
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To the introducer: The Jews were crammed into cattle cars, with no or very little openings. They did not see the country side as they were transported to the camps. One would think that you would have known enough not to make such an obvious mistake.
Not all rode in cattle cars. "Prominent" Jews (like those shipped to Theresianstadt) and many Jews from Western European countries were shipped via 3rd class passenger cars and were forced to buy their tickets.
The experiences of the Jews of Western Europe and those of Jews in Eastern Europe were often very different from each other, and it is of little use to assume that because one group had one experience that it applied to all groups of Jews. Respectfully, you may benefit from more thorough personal research before you flatly state that something you never personally witnessed was or was not possible.
Norma Mimosa, what she said!!! I was all ready to leave a comment then saw someone already said what needed to be said!!!
@@melanieclark2668 Two recent books I've read (THE AUSCHWITZ PHOTOGRAPHER, and novel PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION) wrote about prisoners being transported in open container cars, such as those used to ship coal. Of course, many perished.
I’m am broken every time , every time every time…I here of this atrocious harm to the people of God. Nothing will be left without punishment our God is a righteous and just God. I will never forget!!!! Shalom
I believe that the past is still here in reality. Lost film footage happens to exist as a sample of it, just as your memories are memories of reality. I.e. the past is not a realm of ghosts, shadows, specters, but actual reality like the present. Time is not linear; it happens all at once; it's we who perceive it as linear. Anyway, point is I'm glad this and other lost footage exists, but that doesn't mean the past wouldn't exist without it.
Go to school. In 1880 There was not Poland!
The Closed Caption option helps
Haunted landscape ?
Blaming on landscape ?
So poignant
Notice how healthy they look, despite being poor.
No obese dull looking gestalts
Dear American Jews, thank England and France for failing in their alliance and putting Poles in 1939 to fight alone. Get compensation from them and hands off Poland.
The UK & France declared war on Germany after Germany on 3 Sept. 1939 after Germany failed to withdraw its forces from Poland having been an ultimatum to do so. You are telling lies.
@@lawrencebrown3677 Go to school, they declared war and didn't do nothing, no action .They wait until Poland lost all.And in Jalta Churchill and Truman sell all Eastern Europe to Stalin.Go to school, don't accuse any body of lies.
@@lawrencebrown3677 Declared war and sat on their hands...He is not telling lies.
@@annagalas102 u said "didn't do nothing" and still told someone else to go to school
@@lawrencebrown3677 are you Polish to "know " our history?How can you say those lies?
just show the damn pictures
At least then you had someone you could blame for finishing them. What do you say when Jews finish themselves?
I would say, wish people realized this and let people destroy themselves by their own actions than be murderers.
Żydy macie swój kraj Izrael! Dajcie spokój już Polsce
Proof that Anti Semitism is alive and well in Poland to this day, shame on you.