Poland: Uncovering the Past & Revealing the Future

With Glenn Kurtz and Leora Tec

Monday, May 9, 2016 at 8:30 a.m.

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Co-sponsored by the Jewish Arts Collaborative

In 2009, writer Glenn Kurtz found a short, 1938 ‘home movie’ that his grandfather, an immigrant to the US, took when visiting his former home in Nasielsk, Poland.  The discovery led Kurtz on a four-year journey to identify the people in the film and re-capture life in the small, predominantly Jewish town before the Holocaust. Kurtz will discuss how his grandfather’s three minutes of film led him to a riveting exploration of memory, loss, and improbable survival.

Kurtz will be joined by Leora Tec, Director of Bridge to Poland, an organization she founded to share the memorialization of Jewish life being carried out by non-Jewish Poles. Tec first felt the connection to her Polish identity when she joined her mother, Nechama Tec, a survivor and Holocaust scholar, on a trip to Poland in 2005. Tec will share her passion for showing people the power of reconciliation and hope even in the shadow of the darkest history.  

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