Surviving In Silence

Eleanor C. Dunai

Israel Deutsch, the second youngest of ten children of a Czechoslovakian rabbi, was born deaf, and was educated at a Jewish school for deaf children in Hungary during World War II. Being Jewish and Deaf he faced a double threat of being exported to the gas chambers in Poland, but at every turn he found a way to survive. Having lost his parents and two brothers during the holocaust, and after extensive travels in Europe, he finally went to the USA. There he married a deaf Jewish woman he had met years before and changed his name to Harry Dunai. Hardcover 192 pages 2002

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