InfoGuides: Deaf and World War II: Plays, Juvenile, and Fiction Books

Last Updated: Sep 2, 2025 4:29 PM

Plays

Meta by Patricia Durr
Online courtesy of Deaf Theatre website.
Silent Salzburg by Richard Medugno

Silence in Berlin-A historical fiction screenplay written for a thesis project by Matthew Craig Wolff.
About Felix Reich, a rescuer, and the Israelite Institute for the Deaf.Setting is Berlin and London.

Juvenile Books/Videos

Resistance
In German-occupied Normandy, France, fifteen-year-old Marianne worries that her mother is exposing the family, especially Marianne's deaf younger brother, to great danger by volunteering for more perilous assignments in the resistance movement
Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti (Illustrator); Roberto Gallaz
DVD. A young German girl watches as the streets of her town fill with soldiers and tanks. Then, one day, she follows a truck into the woods and discovers a terrible secret.
The silent hero : a true escape story from World War II
The true story of a young deaf French boy, Pierre, who rescues a British pilot and helps him back across enemy lines during World War II
T4: A Novel in Verse
Signs of Survival