Julius Menn: Flight from Invading German Troops

First Person Podcast by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Jul 1, 2009Society & Culture

Julius Menn discusses his family's flight eastward from advancing German troops invading Poland in September 1939. Julius's family escaped from Bialystok, Poland, to Vilna, Lithuania, eventually making their way through...

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