52 | SEPTEMBER 8 • 2022
ARTS&LIFE
FILM
T
hree Minutes: A Lengthening is a rare glimpse
into Jewish life before World War II.
Examining three minutes of footage shot in
1938 in Nasielsk, Poland, the documentary — which
will screen at the Maple Theater on Sept. 12 at 6:30
p.m. — contains the only moving images remaining
of the town’s Jewish community.
Before the war, more than 3,000 Jews lived in
Nasielsk, located just northwest of Warsaw. Following
the devastation of the Holocaust and the Nazi regime,
only eight known individuals survived.
“It’s three minutes in time where we didn’t know
then what was going to happen next,
” says Perry
Ohren, CEO of Jewish Family Service, which is orga-
nizing the film’s screening. “Now we know what hap-
pened next after those three minutes.
”
Rare documentary and
home footage captures life
interrupted in pre-war Poland.
Glimpse
thePast
ASHLEY ZLATOPOLSKY CONTRIBUTING WRITER