Three Minutes in Poland Quotes

“Of the approximately 2,900 Jewish Nasielskers who remained in Poland, fewer than ten survived the war.”
― Glenn Kurtz, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film

“Why do some details become “history”—included in schoolbooks, in scholarly dissertations, or in personal narratives—while other details are forgotten? What scale of information do we accept when we say that we know something about the past?”
― Glenn Kurtz, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film

“Both magnetic and optical storage formats—videotape, digital discs, and drives—decay much faster than commercial film stock. Despite living in the cloud, there is no heaven for digital data. And in fifty years, even if our CDs, DVDs, flash drives, and YouTube accounts retain their contents, which is unlikely, there will be no devices or software with which to read them. Skip even one generation of technological change and the precious photos, videos, or letters on the floppy disks in the closet become inaccessible or illegible.”
― Glenn Kurtz, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film