Overview
- Interview Summary
- Saul Manski, born in Lida, Poland (now Belarus) on April 18, 1928, describes his story of escape from the Nazis during the start of World War II with his older brother Samuil, sister Mira, and mother Riva; his father, Isaac, who was already in the United States when the war began; fleeing Lida with his family when the Soviets invaded eastern Poland in 1939; going to Eišiškės, Lithuania, where they stayed with relatives for most of the following year; receiving two Japanese transit visas from Diplomat Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas, Lithuania on August 9, 1940; traveling east across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway; taking a boat to Japan from Vladivostok, Russia; the fate of their family members in Lithuania; arriving in Japan on February 24, 1941; living in Kobe, Japan until early May 1941, when they boarded a boat for the US; arriving in Seattle, WA on May 18, 1941; and reuniting with his father in Boston, MA a month later.
- Interviewee
- Saul Manski
- Interviewer
- Shira Singer
- Date
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interview:
2012 July 28
- Geography
-
creation:
Lake Worth (Fla.)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Manski
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 digital file : MP4.
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- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish families--Belarus. Jewish families--Japan. Jewish refugees--Japan. Jewish refugees--Lithuania. Jews--Belarus--Lida. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Japan. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Boston (Mass.) Eišiškės (Lithuania) Kobe-shi (Japan) Lida (Belarus) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Russia. United States--Emigration and immigration. Vladivostok (Russia)
- Corporate Name
- Trans-Siberian Railway
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- David Manski donated the oral history interview with his father Saul Manski to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 2017.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:41:21
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