
Surviving in Silence
A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust, The Harry I. Dunai Story
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Surviving in Silence
A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust, The Harry I. Dunai Story
About this book
Izrael Zachariah Deutsch was born on March 15, 1934, in Komjata, Czechoslovakia. The second youngest child, Izrael lived a bucolic existence with nine brothers and sisters on a farm, differing from them only in that he was deaf. When he was six, his mother took him to Budapest, Hungary, and enrolled him in a Jewish school for deaf children, where he thrived. Soon, however, the Nazi regime in Germany and the Arrow Cross fascists in Hungary destroyed Izrael's world forever.
Izrael realized that by being both Jewish and deaf, he faced a double threat of being exported to the gas chambers in Poland. But at every lethal junction, he found a way to survive, first by buying and reselling pastries for extra money that later saved his life in the Budapest ghetto. Still, Izrael was close to death from starvation when he was liberated by Russian soldiers on January 18, 1945.
? Izrael survived the war only to learn that his parents and two brothers had been murdered by the Nazis. The rest of his brothers and sisters scattered to distant parts of the world. Forced to remain in Budapest, Izrael finished school and became an accomplished machinist. He avoided any part in the Hungarian uprising in 1956 so that he could secure a visa to leave for Sweden. From Sweden he traveled throughout Europe and Israel, using an amazing network of Holocaust survivors, relatives, and deaf friends to ease his journey. He finally settled in Los Angeles, where he married a deaf Jewish woman he had met years before. Along the way, he changed his name from Izrael Deutsch to Harry Dunai.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- chapter 1 (1934β1937) In the Beginning
- chapter 2 (1938β1940) Mischievous Childhood and Darkening Political Clouds
- chapter 3 (1940β1941) The Institute
- chapter 4 (1941β1943) Was God Watching?
- chapter 5 (1943β1944) A Special Trip Home
- chapter 6 (1944) The Yellow Star of David and the Red Cross
- chapter 7 (1944) Tears of Joy and Despair
- chapter 8 (1944β1945) The Central Ghetto and the Christmas Nightmare
- chapter 9 (1945) On Death Row
- chapter 10 (1945β1948) The Bar Mitzvah and Zionism
- chapter 11 (1948β1949) A Summer Vacation and a Kiss
- chapter 12 (1949β1950) Found: A Government School, but No God
- chapter 13 (1950β1952) The Mechanical Trade School
- chapter 14 (1952β1956) The Deaf Club and the Comforts of Home
- chapter 15 (1956) A Visit Home to Komjata
- chapter 16 (1956) The Revolution
- chapter 17 (1957) Farewell to Budapest
- chapter 18 (1957) Sweden
- chapter 19 (1958) The London Chess Tournament
- chapter 20 (1958β1959) Making Plans for a New Life
- chapter 21 (1959) Farewell to Sweden and Onward to Europe and Israel
- chapter 22 (1959) America and the Angel in the Sky
- chapter 23 (1960) The Comet and a Christmas Wedding
- chapter 24 (1960β1961) Jessica Gets a Job
- chapter 25 (1962β1963) January 18βSpiritual Fate
- Epilogue
- Endnotes