New Research on Deaf Life During the Holocaust

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NEW YORK, July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — On July 26, 2011, Mark Zaurov, a deaf Ph.D. candidate at the University of Hamburg, Germany who had recently completed a four-month fellowship at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, presented “Deaf Holocaust.”  His research includes interviews with Deaf Holocaust survivors and Deaf German perpetrators.

Mr. Zaurov presented research on a unique and previously neglected group, Deaf Jews, a double cultural minority and therefore victims of both anti-Semitism and audism

Published On: 5 Av 5771 (5 Av 5771 (August 5, 2011))