Valley residents Tom and Susan Ernst covered the cost of the hologram exhibit. Susan's parents were both Holocaust survivors. Her father was the only survivor in his immediate family. Phoenix is among the largest cities in the country without a Holocaust center. The center would educate visitors through local survivor stories, artifacts and immersive experiences.
We need that more than ever today. Hance Park downtown. For his exhibit, Knoblauch was filmed and asked a series of more than 2, questions. The responses were recorded so visitors can receive answers from his hologram.
The Phoenix Holocaust Association was incorporated in as a c 3 not-for-profit organization. PHA is a partnership of Holocaust survivors, their descendants and the larger community, whose mission is to honor the memory and legacy of the survivors and victims, promote awareness of the Holocaust, provide education of this and other genocides, and contribute to tikkun olam , repair of the world.
Monday, am Phoenix, AZ. Monday, pm Phoenix, AZ. Justin Liggin , Local Business. Mar 1. Event Details. Mon, Mar 1, at AM. Morris Field, for example, never revealed his disability while passing through a total of five concentration camps.
When he spoke, his accent blended him into the crowd of other foreigners. Field once noticed a group of deaf signers communicating with each other in a corner, and debated with himself about whether or not to sign to them that he too was deaf. Field decided against it and found the next day that they all had disappeared. He suspected they were all killed.
Carmel also interviewed artist David Bloch. Block recalls Kristallnacht, when Nazis pounded on his door and shouted that they would arrest him for being a criminal—that is, a Jew.
He eventually escaped to Shanghai and became something of an art anthropologist. Bloch interpreted music at the camps to signal imminent death, even though he could not hear it. Deaf prisoners also faced a dilemma when they managed to escape or become liberated—they were often denied access to the United States.
Carmel related the story of Stanley Teger, whose mother had been outraged when the immigration official refused to admit the young Stanley for fear that deafness was contagious. Some infectious illnesses at the time caused blindness, leading to widespread fear that other disabilities would propagate as well.
Teger started a new hobby in America as a Statue of Liberty collector. The deaf did face the same struggles as the Jewish in attempting to conceal their religion. Eugene Bergmann, who grew up wealthy and became deaf when he a soldier hit him on the head with a rifle, was almost discovered when his leg cramped while he was swimming. A fisherman rescued him and noticed that something was wrong.
He told Bergmann to pull down his pants—a terrifying situation for a circumcised boy in Nazi Germany.
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