HMMSA Screening of "Three Minutes: A Lengthening"

About the film
Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz captured three minutes of ordinary life in the small, predominantly Jewish town of Nasielsk, Poland, on 16mm Kodachrome color film. Now, a book by Glenn Kurtz, David's grandson who originally uncovered the lost footage, has been adapted into a film, Three Minutes - A Lengthening.

The three minutes of footage, mostly in color, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid. The footage is imaginatively edited with different voices that enhance the images, to create a film of home movie footage which has become a memorial to an entire community – an entire culture annihilated in the Holocaust.

This film will be shown from August 25 - September 1 at Santikos Embassy 14.

Click here to watch the trailer.

Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio (HMMSA) hopes that you will join them as a community on Sunday, August 28 at the 3:20PM screening at Santikos Embassy 14.