force and feels, dodging hunger. after a year in lithuania, the family returned to palestine in october 1940. this event as part of the holocaust museum's first-person series. it is just over an hour. >> good morning and welcome come to the united states holocaust memorial museum. my name is bill benson, the host of first-person. thank you for joining us today. we are in our 17th year of the first person program. our first person today is mr. julius menn whom we shall meet shortly. this season of first-person is made possible by the generation of the loo's frequent smith foundation with additional funding from the arlene and daniel fisher foundation. first-person is a series of conversations with survivors of the holocaust who share with us their first-hand accounts of their experiences during the holocaust. each of our first-person guests serve as volunteers here at this museum. our program will continue twice-weekly through mid-august. t these himh -- the louisiana' 0-- the museum's website provides information about each of our desperate the website address is www.ushmm.org.

lithuania by traveling through forests and fields, dodging hunger and german dive bombers. after a year in lithuania, the family returned to palestine in october 1940. this event was part of the united states holocaust memorial museum's first person series. it's a little over an hour. >>> good morning and welcome to the united states holocaust memorial museum. my name is bill benson, the host of the museum's public program first person. thank you for joining us today. we are in our 17th year of the first person program. and our first person today is mr. julius menn, who we shall meet shortly. this 2016 season of first person is made possible by the generosity of the lewis franklin smith foundation with additional funding from the arlene and daniel fisher foundation. we are grateful for their sponsorship. first person is a series of conversations with survivors of the holocaust who share with us their firsthand accounts of their experience during the holocaust. each of our first person guests serves as volunteers here at this museum. our program will continue twice weekly through mid-august

were very complicated, it became lithuania, so i had to go to school and learn lithuanian and lithuanian history. i will tell you one thing, lithuanian is very different than polish, it is unlike any other language. and also poland and lithuania at one time were united. but lithuania was once a very great country, and basically captured parts of russia to the black sea. also, in poland, because of so many jewish people, there was a -- they had the jews had a -- their own constitution from the polish government, which allowed them to keep their own public schools. and the public schools were called to translate to english, it said culture. so in these schools, the most subjects were taught in hebrew, but you had to study the history of the country and the language. i just remember very few words. >> and that's what you were doing in vilnius, and so our audience understands, so you are in the russian occupied part of the country. >> also, a must say, we got to vilnius, vilnius is a very old city. it has a great history. but we had no money. so we ended up living in one room in t

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. he describes how his family narrowly escaped east to lithuania by traveling through forests and fields, dodging hunger and german dive bombers. after a year in lithuania, the family returned to palestine in october 1940. this event was part of the united states holocaust memorial museum's first person series. it's a little over an hour. >>> good morning and welcome to the united states holocaust memorial museum. my name is bill benson, the host of the museum's public program first person.

army invaded in september 1939. he describes how his family narrowly escaped east to lithuania by traveling through forests and fields, dodging hunger and german dive bombers. after a year in lithuania, the family returned to palestine in october 1940. this event was part of the united states holocaust memorial museum's first person series. it's a little over an hour. >>> good morning and welcome to the united states holocaust memorial museum. my name is bill benson, the host of the museum's public program first person. thank you for joining us today. we are in our 17th year of the first person program. and our first person today is mr. julius menn, who we shall meet shortly. this 2016 season of first person is made possible by the generosity of the lewis franklin smith foundation with additional funding from the arlene and daniel fisher foundation. we are grateful for their sponsorship. first person is a series of conversations with survivors of the holocaust who share with us their firsthand accounts of their experience during the holocaust. each of our first person guests serve

survivor julius who tells his story of getting through the war in poland and lithuania. wednesday night on "american history tv primetime," civil war and reconstruction. at 8:55, photographs that show the history of emancipation. 9:45 p.m. eastern, the political battles during reconstruction after the civil war. and at 10:50, historians discuss the different narratives created after the war to explain why the south lost. next on american history tv, holocaust survivor anna grosz recalls her family's experiences after hungary annexed a portion of romania that included her hometown then imposed anti-semitic laws. the family was confined along with other jews to a ghetto when nazi germany occupied hungary. they were transported to auschwitz concentration camp and later forced to do hard labor. this was part of the "first person" series. that's little over an hour. >>> the life stories of holocaust survivors transcend the decades. what you're about to hear from anna is one individual's account of the holocaust. we have prepared a brief slide presentation to help with her introduction. anna

being involved with labor organizations, hillman was born in lithuania and was viewed by many as a socialist or a communist and he has the backing of labor unions and he's using that backing to support democratic candidates. and so supposedly, too, i have this at the very bottom of the screen, roosevelt before signing off to a truman bid for vp told his aides, clear everything with sidney. make sure it's okay with him before we go forward with a truman vice presidential candidacy. so that remark "clear everything with sidney" became kind of a major battle cry for republicans in 1944, saying, see, roosevelt is indispensable. he's indispensable to the communists. the rhetoric was also intense. and here is an image of republican congresswoman clare booth luce of connecticut elected in 1942, the wife of henry luce the publisher of "time" mag zeeb and the author of the "life" editorial or essay in 1941 an american century. but she accuses fdr that fall of little by little distorting our democracy into a dictatorial bubbledom and insisted he's the only mernl american president who lied u

julius mann who tells his story of getting through the war in poland and lithuania. then anna grows who survived the holocaust in romania. >> the political battled during reconstruction, and at 10:50 historians discuss the different narratives created after the war to explain why the south lost. next on american history tv holocaust survivor louise lawrence israel recalls going into hiding with her family after german forces invaded the netherlan netherlands. louise celebrated her second and third birthdays in an amsterdam apartment hidden in plain sight using false identification papers acquired by her father. she discusses how her family coped with life in hiding and how it has affected her since. this event was part of the united states holocaust memorial museum's first person series. >>> we've prepared a brief audio visual introduction and some images. she was born in the netherlands in 1942. the pointer is now pointing to amsterdam, the capital of netherlan netherlands. this is a picture of louise when she was 1 years old. she was cute then. she's still cute now. this is louise wit