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This book really hit me hard. I read most of it with tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat for the Jewish history it contains, is my history. In World War II, in the Polish shtetl (town) of Nasielsk, the Nazis entered in September, 1939. Of the 3,000 Jews that lived there, only 80 survived. My family's hometown was Nesvizh, Poland which was only about 300 miles apart from Nasielsk.. Like the town Nasielsk, only 25 Jews out of 4,000, lived through the Nazi's reign of terror in my family's sht
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Do you enjoy programs like the "History Detectives?" Do you know what "Crowd Sourcing" can mean in research? This is the incredible story of a young man who started a novel and ended up living it in real life. This is the true story of how a piece of home movie film from 1938--the "Three Minutes in Poland"--was research, the people identified, survivors reconnected and the whole thing added to the collective knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust. Amazing! I did not get to finish it due to the library'
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Aug 29, 2016
Jennifer
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Ashley
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