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

. 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

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