Overview
- Interview Summary
- Deaf Holocaust survivors give their testimonies at the 1990 Deaf Jewish Convention in Secaucus, NJ. File 1: Interviews with Laszlo Bardos and Magda Zimmet Bardos, from Hungary; File 2: Interview with Ludwig Wurmfeld, from Czechoslovakia; File 3: An introduction by the moderator Simon Carmel, followed by a panel discussion between Frieda Wurmfeld, from Czechoslovakia; Rose Feld Roseman, from Poland; and Stan Teger, from Poland; followed by testimonies retold by Debbie Fink, a family member of a survivor and Dorothy Pankua and Marge Klugman, friends of survivors. (Uncaptioned)
Deaf survivors' testimonies: Introduction (0:39) -- Frieda Wurmfeld (11:40) -- Rose Feld Roseman (14.25) -- Stan Teger (7.23) (Uncaptioned)
Deaf survivors' testimonies related by family and friends: Introduction (9:40) -- Debbie Fink (5:12) -- Marge Klugman (3:16) -- Dorothy Pankua (6:20) (Uncaptioned) - Interviewer
- Dr. Simon Carmel
- Date
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Recorded:
1990
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology
Physical Details
- Language
- American Sign Language
- Extent
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3 videocassettes (DVCAM)s (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..
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- Rochester Institute of Technology - National Technical Institute for the Deaf
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Rochester Institute of Technology - National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology donated a recording from the 1990 Deaf Jewish Convention to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in December 2009.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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Also in Signed testimonies of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf collection
Oral history interviews with deaf survivors of the Holocaust.
Date: 1990-2006
Signed testimony of Simon Carmel
Oral History
Simon Carmel, born in Baltimore, MD, discusses how he became involved in research on Deaf Holocaust survivors; locating Deaf survivors in Philadelphia, PA and Washington, DC; how he chose to write the stories down instead of film them; some of his frustrations trying to capture the individuals’ stories; common themes in the experiences of the survivors; the statistics on Deaf people who were killed in Europe during the Holocaust; conferences he has attended, including an international conference at Gallaudet University; preserving other genocide stories; signs that have been used for the Holocaust as well as Holocaust-related terms, such as “Nazi” and “Star of David badges”; and the importance of sharing stories of personal experiences.
Signed testimony of Ingelore Honigstein
Oral History
Ingelore Honigstein, born in 1924 in Rastatt, Germany, discusses her childhood as a Jewish Deaf person in her hometown of Kuppenheim during the 1930s; her recollections of the beginning of Nazi Party activity and subsequent restrictions placed on Jews; learning to speak with a speech therapist and attending the Heidelberg School for the Deaf; her treatment as the only Jewish student and her expulsion from the school; her father’s deportation to Dachau and his miraculous release; being sexual assaulted by members of the Nazi Youth and her ensuing pregnancy; hiding her Deafness in order to obtain a visa to travel to the United States where her great-uncle lived; traveling to Holland from where she sailed with her family to the United States on the Volendam I; finding employment through HIAS; meeting her first husband, Herbert Stiefel, whom she had met before in her hometown in Germany; how her husband fled Germany and encouraged other Deaf people to do the same; how her husband made uniforms for General Eisenhower, General Patton, and Admiral Nimitz; returning to her childhood home in Germany; and telling her story for the first time in 1992 during a Deaf Jewish convention in Washington, DC.
Signed testimony of Lilly Rattner Shirey
Oral History
Lilly Rattner Shirey, born October 27, 1932, discusses her childhood in Nazi occupied Vienna, Austria; her Deaf mother; her family's escape from Austria during the night in April 1940 and taking a train to Italy; sailing to the United states on the Rex; hiding jewelry and gold in their clothing; their detainment on Ellis Island; and their eventual entry into the United States.
Signed testimony of Doris Fedrid
Oral History
Doris Fedrid, a Jewish Polish Deaf survivor who late in life also became blind, discusses her experience under the Nazi occupation of Tarnopol, Poland (Ternopil', Ukraine); daily life for her family in the ghetto; her time in a slave labor camp; the birth of her sister in the camp and how she was taken to a Catholic orphanage by a Nazi; her escape from the camp along with her family; all their hiding places; immigrating to the United States; and marrying a Deaf survivor from Austria. (Recording is captioned.)
