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