Crying Hands
The Deaf Experience under Nazi Oppression
The Deaf community's experience is a neglected chapter in Holocaust history. Join us for a special program and question-and-answer session with a Museum archivist and curator along with the producers of an independently run traveling exhibition.

Register today for this important conversation, which will be held on December 5, 2019 in La Jolla, California USA.
 
Film still from a 1939 Universal Newsreel showing Pope Pius XI on the balcony at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration, College Park, MD
Thursday, December 5
7:45 p.m.
Congregation Beth El
8660 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA
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Deaf Jews suffered the same fate as hearing Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe: discrimination, persecution, deportation, and mass murder. Along with deaf Germans, they were further targeted under Nazi policy. Some were forcibly sterilized and many were unable to emigrate because of their perceived disability.

The Museum's Deaf Victims of Nazi Persecution and the Holocaust Initiative is committed to preserving and telling the stories of deaf survivors. Join us for a special program on the deaf experience during the Holocaust era with a Museum archivist and curator, along with the producers of an independently run traveling exhibition, In Der Nacht, which captured deaf survivors' accounts in the late 1980s. A question-and-answer session with the audience will follow the program.


Speakers
Michelle Baron and Marla Petal, Executive Producers, All the People
James Gilmore, Archives Specialist, National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Suzy Snyder, Curator, National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Opening Remarks
Marla Abraham, Director, Western Region, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required at ushmm.org/events/deaf-experience. For more information, please contact Marla Abraham at 310.556.3222 or western@ushmm.org.

Join the conversation online using #USHMM.

Photo: Speech lessons by palpation of the larynx in the Israelite Deaf-Mute Institution Berlin-Weissensee, Berlin, 1934. Photograph by Herbert Sonnenfeld. Jewish Museum Berlin, Inv.-No. FOT 88/500/1/002, purchased with funds provided by Stiftung DKLB