"It's Grandpa": Marcy Rosen's Extraordinary Discovery
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Marcy Rosen had never seen a photograph of her grandfather, Morry Chandler, as a young man. He is a Holocaust survivor, and all pictures from his childhood were lost or destroyed.
But then Marcy found a pre-World War II film from his hometown in Poland on the Museum's website. And she spotted his fourteen-year-old face among a group of children and teens smiling at the camera. She immediately contacted the Museum to learn more about the film and the person who donated it. What happened next was a dream come true.
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My grandfather, Joseph Borenstein, always told us of the story of Moshe Tuchendler, and how he was the only Jew that survived in his hometown and how my grandfather contacted him after the war and brought him to America. I tell this story to my children and to my friends. Imagine how amazed I was to see this video clip!!! The tears are literally streaming down my face. It's amazing to see Morry.
this is amazing!! i’m one of his granddaughters, this just melted my heart to read, and today is my birthday. thank you for that
I knew March's mother, Evie Chandler, in suburban Detroit. We were both counsellors at Camp Ponchatrain, a Jewish day camp for children. Marcy told me about her father. Fast forward 50 years. I'm so glad that Evie had a beautiful family. She was a wonderful, kind, thoughtful young woman. I'm sure her children and grand children are too!
This story is so moving. Thank you for your important work
Thank God for the USHMM. Since last month on HRDay I have been watching many stories of survivors as I do every year. We must never, ever forget that the Holocaust happened, no matter how many people refuse to believe it. Thank you for this heart warming look into a village in 1938.
Thank you Glenn Kurtz for sharing this beautiful gift with the world.
Amazing find. I came to this video from a New York Times article about it, where they explained that the footage had been used to create a 70-minute documentary called "Three Minutes: A Lengthening". I have not seen the documentary yet, but after watching this I'll definitely be looking it up. I hope others who found this interesting will be interested in the documentary too.
Thank you for sharing your story! I am so glad the film survived, the Mr. Kurtz saved the film and wrote his book, and that you have this treasured memory of your family. The book was profoundly moving and my book club will be discussing it in June 2016. I hope they recognize how important this story, the book, and the film are. This video is an important part of the whole story, and shows how important an old home movie, a sweet memory, or a book can be.
Welcome to the Chandler family! My mother's family, the Mohlers came here to escape the progroms, but many didn't make it. They kept their name of Mohler but many of them didn't, they changed their names and even their religions to escape persecution. It wasn't until 10 years ago when my uncle gave us the news. Our family was Jewish and a medical diagnosis from me made it official. (I carry the Tay-Sachs trait) We went to a local synagogue with some friends with this news and they made us feel so much like we were among 'the lost' that had returned.
A perfect ‘home movie’ story, and incredible that the connection could be made.
Very moving video. It is amazing how no matter what happens, events can be connected and bring a bigger picture to humanity, regardless of time and distance.
Thanks so much for posting.
What a wonderful experience, to see ones loved one. Mazel Tov to Mr. Chandler and his family!
I think the music that accompanies the video is perfect. How many grandkids does Morry have? It was a place of life like so many others, but the Nazis turned them into places of death. Remember almost nobody in the film survived. But hey Nazis we're still here. Things are different of course, but the Jews will always survive.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
you’ll be happy to hear, he has PLENTY and grandchildren, and plenty of great grandchildren!! still goin strong at 98 years old!
3:52 "a place of life..."This focus and celebration of life is surely sweet
What an amazing story!
"It brought the town into memory again as a place of life instead of just a place of death" - no better words to define this finding
Very touching story! My dad's grandparents left what's now the Ukraine in 1891, so my own grandparents, their siblings, and descendants were spared this. We lost some relations in the Shoah, nonetheless.
Tina Chandler, below, speaks of changing names and religions. I know about that. I'm a Levi, but my name was anglicised by my grandfather to enable promotion in the Army, and my dad converted to Christianity officially a year before my birth, so I was born into a Christian home, and now I'm a minister. The genetic markers are there, so it's not just a story.
David Kurtz's home movie and Morry Chandler's remarkable story are explored in depth in "Three Minutes in Poland," published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. For more information, visit: glennkurtz.com/cgi-bin/iowa/three-minutes-in-poland/index.html
Such a wonderful story.
One of the most bittersweet stories I have ever seen.
Beautiful. So glad I saw this. But also sad that these happy people were murdered.
WOW! I'm speechless
Morrie Chandler told me that it was Harry Gordon of Nashville that after the war helped him to get to Nashville and he lived with Harry and Gladys(my father's first cousin) for about two years.
I learned of this while on a business call with Morry.
Fabulous, what a joy.
Este pequeno filme é lindo e comovente além de ser um belo registro histórico. Estou compartilhando com os meus amigos do Brasil em solidariedade,carinho e respeito. .
That is the best story!!!!
Amazing
You are the spitting image of him.
Great story, but I wish I could just view the old footage...there are other people in that video as well. Yet every presentation on the internet focuses just on this one man.
You can watch the original footage right here: www.ushmm.org/online/film/display/detail.php?file_num=5216
if you watch “three minutes in poland: a lengthening”, my grandpa points out all the people, the architecture, everything, and reanimates the lives of all those people if only for a moment. it’s beautiful, maybe you’ll then understand why my grandpa is so deserving of having his story told
How i imagine life should be! Lots of human interaction communal living; Life is boring now SUVs roads no one has time but for loniliness & depression
Where can the entire film be viewed?
Thank you so much for sharing with me an infamous fragment of the Hitler's Nazi horrendous regimen.
It must be a very sad painful odyssey to recount it.
The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality.
In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises:
"He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war."
My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness.
Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind.
The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.
God Bless the Jews.