Deaf Rabbi Presents on Holocaust History

Deaf Rabbi Presents on Holocaust History

By Christi Boortz, Curriculum Department
Florida School for the Deaf & the Blind
Posted on March 3, 2016    

For an hour on the morning of February 29, 2016, Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff, who is deaf and the executive director of the Jewish Deaf Foundation based in Brooklyn, NY, took the stage in Kirk Auditorium on the FSDB campus for a special presentation on The Holocaust through Deaf Eyes. Deaf Middle and High School students made disapproving noises when the image of Adolf Hitler arose on the giant screen.

They already knew plenty about Hitler, but this historical presentation contained details of the lives of deaf individuals in Nazi Germany that they didn

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