Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:54 am
Post subject: "Three minutes in Poland" story from Nasielsk
Incredible story filled with coincidences and beautiful turning points!
On October 29, 2014, a group of more than thirty survivors, family members, and descendants of Nasielsk's Jewish community returned to the town. They met with high school students, visited their former homes and commemorated the 75th anniversary of the deportation of Nasielsk's Jewish community with the town's current residents.
The spiritus movens of this event was Glenn Kurtz, who found a video recorded in 1938 in Nasielsk by his grandfather: David Kurtz. After series of coincidences and four years of his arduous, and persistent work he managed to identify the people in his grandfather’s 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..."
Glenn Kurtz (source: http://glennkurtz.com/cgi-bin/iowa/three-minutes-in-poland/index.html)
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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:54 am
Post subject: "Three minutes in Poland" story from Nasielsk
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