Donna F. Ryan and John S. Schuchman, Government and History

In the summer of 1998, Professors Donna F. Ryan and John S. Schuchman co-chaired the conference: "Deaf People in Hitler's Europe, 1933-1945" co-sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Gallaudet University.  Attendees shared information and reiterated the importance of the continued search for deaf Holocaust survivors.  Building on their earlier research with survivors, Professors Ryan and Schuchman propose a three-week visit to Berlin, Budapest, and Vienna. In the summer of 1997, they interviewed a dozen Jewish deaf survivors in Budapest.  Since time, two have died.  It is imperative that we locate and interview as many remaining survivors as we can.