Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film

by Glenn Kurtz

Book Overview

The author's discovery of a brief 16mm film shot by his grandfather during a 1938 visit to his soon-to-be-extinguished birthplace in Poland unfolds like a detective story. Now the basis for the documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening.

Named one of the best books of 2014 by NPR, The New Yorker, and The Boston Globe

When Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents' closet in Florida,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374535795
• ISBN13: 9780374535797
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"