Three minutes before the Holocaust: the tape that fights against the forgetfulness of the victims

Three minutes. This is what the documentary ‘Three Minutes: An Exploration’ dedicates to a tape that lasts for that, 180 seconds, and that collects images of a Jewish people that was deported. For the most part, they did not survive. They were victims of the Holocaust.

That tape is proof that they lived, that they existed. What was intended to be a simple souvenir of the European vacations of david kurtz it ended up becoming the only living memory of all of them.

Now, Bianca Stigterthe director of the documentary, stops at every detail, zooming in and taking out every gesture, every grimace and every detail of an image that is history.

He also tries to find the owner of a store, but the attempt comes to nothing due to the poor quality of the image… until a sequence arrives that stops and he is at the mr chandlerthe only living survivor of the Holocaust in this Polish town.

These images are a relief for them and their families, since they are the only proof that they existed, the only one that the Holocaust could not delete.