Dezső Kanizsai (27 January 1886 – 27 November 1981) was a Hungarian audiologist and educator of deaf children. Kanizsai was born in Cífer in 1886. He taught at the Jewish Institute for the Deaf in Budapest starting in 1907. During the interwar period he developed and publicized his own teaching program. His school on Mexico Square became a social club for the deaf Jews of Budapest. After the German military occupation of Hungary in March 1944, Kaniszai managed to keep his class together until the end of the war. "Nearly all the survivors [among the deaf Hungarian Jews] had attended the Jewish
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References Dunai, Eleanor C. (2002). Surviving in silence: a deaf boy in the Holocaust : the Harry I. Dunai story. Gallaudet University Press. ISBN 1-56368-119-6. Ryan, Donna F. et al. (2002). Deaf people in Hitler's Europe. Gallaudet University Press. ISBN 1-56368-126-9. Szabolcs Szita, Sean Lambert (2005). Trading in lives?: operations of the Jewish Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, 1944-1945. Central European University Press. ISBN 963-7326-30-8.
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World War II The Jewish community of Budapest before the Holocaust was estimated at 200,000. Despite popular antisemitism the community was relatively safe and well-integrated politically and with the national economy. The Jewish School for the Deaf on Mexico Square was maintained by the community and managed by Dr. Kanizsai. On the eve of the German occupation it provided shelter and training to forty-five deaf and twelve blind children. It was a safe haven and a meeting point for the deaf Jews of Budapest, regardless of their age. Memoirist Izrael Deutsch (Harry Dunai), who was admitted to the school in 1939 at the age of five, described Kaniszai of that period: "A tall man with a hefty, well-developed body and a few red streaks running through his pure white hair. He lived at school along with the children. He was Jewish as were most counselors and teachers." "He was easy to spot with his tall large frame, hazel eyes, red-streaked white hair and very fair skin. He always wore the same three-piece suit with a white striped shirt and a necktie... he could speak, read and write English and German and held a doctorate degree." According to Deutsch, Kaniszai was…
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Dezső Kanizsai (27 January 1886 – 27 November 1981) was a Hungarian audiologist and educator of deaf children. Kanizsai was born in Cífer in 1886. He taught at the Jewish Institute for the Deaf in Budapest starting in 1907. During the interwar period he developed and publicized his own teaching program. His school on Mexico Square became a social club for the deaf Jews of Budapest. After the German military occupation of Hungary in March 1944, Kaniszai managed to keep his class together until the end of the war. "Nearly all the survivors [among the deaf Hungarian Jews] had attended the Jewish school for deaf children on Mexico Square." After the war Kaniszai returned to academic and teaching duties and authored the definitive Hungarian-language textbooks on education for the deaf.
