Background
Izrael was born deaf. At age six his mother took him to the Jewish Institute for the Deaf in Budapest.
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He also went by "Izrael Deutsch" and later "Harry Dunai". One of four deaf schools in Europe at the time. On January 18, 1945, Russian soldiers liberated the area where Izrael was living.
In 1956 he was able to get a visa and go to Sweden.
He traveled through Europe, connecting with scattered Holocaust survivors, relatives, and deaf friends. In 2002 he wrote a memoir about his experiences as a deaf Jew who managed to survive the Holocaust called Surviving in Silence: A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust, The Harry I. Dunai Story.
