Title:
Deaf people in Hitler's Europe / Donna F. Ryan and John S. Schuchman, editors.
Author:
Ryan, Donna F.
Schuchman, John S., 1938-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2002.
Call Number:
HV2746 .D43 2002
Abstract:
Annotation Inspired by the Deaf People in Hitler's Europe, 1933-1945, conference staged at Gallaudet University in 1998, this extraordinary collection integrates key presentations with additional important work into three crucial parts. Henry Friedlander begins Part I: Racial Hygiene by disclosing that the attack upon deaf people and people with disabilities was an integral element in the Nazi theory of racial hygiene. Robert Proctor documents the role of medical professionals in deciding who should be sterilized, forbidden to marry, or murdered. In her research, Patricia Heberer details how the Nazi's eugenics theories allowed them to extend their lethal policies to those considered socially undesirable. Part II: The German Experience leads with Jochen Muhs' discoveries from interviewing deaf Berliners, both victims and active members of the Nazi Party. "The Place of the School for the Deaf in the New Reich," written by Kurt Lietz in 1934, rues the expense of educating deaf students when they could not be soldiers or, bear "healthy" children. Horst Biesold confirms the complicity of teachers who turned in their own deaf students. The last part explores the Jewish Deaf experience. John S. Schuchman discusses the plight of deaf Jews in Hungary, which complements a transcript of six survivors who described their personal ordeals. The reflections of Peter Black conclude this vital study of a little-known chapter of the Holocaust.
Annotation Ryan and Schuchman (both of the department of history, Gallaudet U.) present ten essays that were partly drawn from the 1998 conference of the same name (co- hosted by their university and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) and partly penned after the conference. The ideology and practices of medical professionals that led to the labeling of deaf people as undesirables in Nazi Germany and their subsequent murder are examined. The experiences of different deaf populations, including deaf Nazis, are described in remaining chapters. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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ISBN:
9781563681325
9781563681264
Physical Description:
xi, 233 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
General Note:
Inspired by an international conference held June 21-24, 1998 in Washington, DC under the auspices of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the History and Government Dept. at Gallaudet University.
"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."
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Contents:
Holocaust studies and the deaf community / Henry Friedlander -- Eugenics in Hitler's Germany / Robert N. Proctor -- Targeting the "unfit" and radical public health strategies in Nazi Germany / Patricia Heberer -- Deaf people as eyewitnesses of National Socialism / Jochen Muhs -- Misjudged people: the German deaf community in 1932 / John S. Schuchman -- The place of the school for the deaf in the new Reich / Kurt Lietz -- Teachers-collaborators / Horst Biesold -- Hungarian deaf Jews and the Holocaust / John S. Schuchman -- Deaf survivors' testimony: an edited transcript / John S. Schuchman and Donna F. Ryan -- A call for more research / Peter Black.
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