And andy. He was one of the most important film directors in the late 1930s. Sunday night at 8 00 on the presidency, john meacham and ron about the process of writing a president ial biography. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Com. Tv,ext on American History holocaust survivor julius menn describes his experiences growing up in poland and palestine to the 1930s and 1940s. 10yearold julius menn and his family were on extendedstay when the german army invaded in september of 1939. He described how his family narrowly escaped by traveling to 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 museums firstperson 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 firstperson. Thank you for joining us today. We are in our 17th year of the first person program. Our first person
Of the most important structures in america. It uses the bridge initially and still today. A large part of it is recreational travel. People use this aste people use this as a gateway to parts east. It is 160 miles from toronto to here, 180 two buffalo, new york. And if we had to go south around the great lakes, it would take twice as long. Cutting travel time in half. As a kid, i would ride my bicycle across, by firecrackers and different stuff like that. Later on as an adult go over and do dinner, visit friends over there. The u. S. Dollar was really strong back in the day, so easy go there and get gas. But now, things have changed quite a bit. But just an important part of my life. This is an important destination crossroads. In the early days we had for trappers through here. Lumbering was a big part through here. At the beginning of the river and floating down, the market further south was here. And with the railroad, that actually increased our agricultural trade because farmers
Holocaust museums firstperson 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 firstperson. 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 firstperson is made possible by the generation of the loos frequent Smith Foundation with additional funding from the arlene and Daniel Fisher foundation. Firstperson is a series of conversations with survivors of the holocaust who share with us their firsthand accounts of their experiences during the holocaust. Each of our firstperson guests serve as volunteers here at this museum. Our program will continue twiceweekly through midaugust. T these himh the louisiana 0 the museums website provides information about each of our desperate the website address is www. Ushmm. Org. Anyone interested in keeping in touch with the museum and i
Not for being jewish, but to be communist to be on the list that you want to leave the country, which we did, could not have the same rights or could not go the children also to higher schools. The same like the hungarians did. So it wasnt a pleasure to live in a communist country because you had a job, but it was so little or small, i dont know how to say it, that you couldnt live there. So we had to do something, with one word steal and if you stole, if they found it they put you in jail and they say there were three kinds of people in romanian, who is in jail, who was in jail and who will be in jail. So we were very happy when after 19 years they let us out from romanian, israel and america paid for our passports, and we were lucky that my two children was young enough to continue here the education. So thats my answer. If you have another answer, i have something without asking me i would say that when you buy a house the agent says is location, location, location. I would say educ
To the city of amsterdam, the capital of the netherlands. This is where louise and her family went into hiding until the very end of the war. This is my favorite one, though. There is a picture of louise when she was one year old, she was cute then, shes still cute now. This is louise with her favorite doll, her brothers little pull toy and one of the chairs that she had as a gift for her second birthday. That chair is now in the possession of the United States Holocaust Memorial museum and its been occasionally on exhibit thanks to louise. Louise spent her second birthday in hiding with her parents and they celebrated her birthday during their time in hiding thanks to some of their their friends and reserve officers from the outside. So this is louises Apartment Building and you can see the arrow pointing to the attic apartment where her family hid during the war years, and following louises birthday, that picture that we just saw, that Little Family of louises would spend an addition