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182 FOREWORD 1. Histories have been published for each school except the one at Budapest. Of the three, only the history of the London school appears in English: David Jackson, ed., The History of the Residential School for Jewish Deaf Children (London : Reunion of the Jewish Deaf School Committee, 1992). Appearing only in German language editions are (a) the history of the Vienna school, Walter Schott, Das allgemeine österreichische isrealitische Taubstummen-Institut in Wien, 1844–1926 (Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 1995), and (b) the history for the Berlin, school, “Öffne deine Hand für die Stummen”: Die Geschichte der Israelitischen Taubstummen-Anstalt Berlin-Weissensee, 1873 bis 1942 (Berlin: Transit, 1993). 2. Dezső Kanizsai, ed., and Michael Mayer, trans., 1943–44 Yearbook (Budapest : Jewish Deaf-Mute National Institute and Sir Ignaz Welselman and Zsofia Neushloss Educational Institute for the Blind, 1944). 3. David Cesarani, ed., Genocide and Rescue, The Holocaust in Hungary, 1944 (Oxford: Berg, 1997), 5. 4. There many excellent histories of the Hungarian Holocaust. A respected historian of Hungary is one of the editors of a recently published history: Randolph L. Braham and Scott Miller, eds., The Nazis’ Last Victims, The Holocaust in Hungary (Detroit: Wayne State University, 1998). 5. This meeting with the German military and Kanizsai’s reaction is described in Otto Roboz,“The Red Cross Home of the Jewish Orphanage for Boys in Budapest,”in The Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry: Essays, Documents, Depositions ed. Randolph L. Braham (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), 295–96. CHAPTER 2 1. Yehuda Bauer, The Holocaust in Historical Perspective (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978), 30–49. 2. Horst Biesold, Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany (Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 1999). 3. Raymond Hill, Nations in Transition: Hungary (New York: Facts on File, 1997), 21–46. 4. Biesold, Crying Hands. 5. James M. Glass, Life Unworthy of Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1997), 23–46. ENDNOTES 6. Hill, Nations in Transition, 41. 7. Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews: Volume Two (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985), 799, 801. 8. Hill, Nations in Transition, 21–46. 9. John Weiss, Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997), 317–41; Glass, Life Unworthy of Life, 47–65. CHAPTER 3 1. Raymond Hill, Nations in Transition: Hungary (New York: Facts on File, 1997), 21–46. 2. Ibid. CHAPTER 4 1. Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 312–16. 2. Ibid, 305, 310–12, 332. CHAPTER 5 1. Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 519. 2. Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews: Volume Two (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985), 797; Raymond Hill, Nations in Transition: Hungary (New York: Facts on File, 1997), 44. CHAPTER 6 1. Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 505. 2. Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews: Volume Two (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985), 823, 843–44. 3. John Weiss, Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee 1997), 341; Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews: Volume Two, 850. 4. Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews: Volume Two, 1138. 5. Danny Smith, Wallenberg: Lost Hero (Springfield, Illinois: Templegate, 1986). CHAPTER 7 1. Raymond Hill, Nations in Transition: Hungary (New York: Facts on File, 1997), 45. ENDNOTES 183 2. Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 515. 3. Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews: Volume Two (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985), 856–58. 4. Yahil, The Holocaust, 457–98. CHAPTER 8 1. Danny Smith, Wallenberg: Lost Hero (Springfield, Illinois: Templegate, 1986), 104–16. CHAPTER 9 1. Jean-Claude Favez, The Red Cross and the Holocaust (United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1999). 2. Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews: Volume Three (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985), 1140. CHAPTER 10 1. In Hungary, what Americans refer to as the Torah is referred to as the Bible. 2. December 6 is St. Nicholas Day, which is celebrated in Hungarian Catholic culture. ENDNOTES 184 ...