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Crying Hand's Victims
In the book Crying Hands we learned that many of Deaf were captured forced to be sterilized, or a forced abortion. Many as young as 9 years old and as old as 50 were getting sterilized. Students were not safe in schools or in their own homes. Most sterilization victims were turned in to public health, in the book Crying hands it states "Sterilization victims were turned in, or reported on, by a variety of groups and individuals. Most often was the local health authority, but the Nazi party and their schools were also named frequently." With this being stated, most individuals were getting turned in by there own teachers or superiors. There were many long-term consequences to forced sterilizations under the forced sterilization law. These sterilizations were done under very unsanitary and painful ways with little to no care. Many un-named survivors did share the long-term effects forced sterilizations brought upon them, including divorces, depression, psychological-physical pain.

When the sterilization law did come to the light, many Deaf mothers were forced to terminate there pregnancy's (no matter how far along you are),and have a forced sterilization right after. All the women who were forced to terminate their pregnacies, were carried out without any consent. This heart breaking case from the book Crying Hands states a young women facing a second sterilization "Frau Fanny Mikes was sterilized against her will in 1936, when she later became pregnant she was forced to have an abortion, and then undergo a second sterilization procedure." This traumatic experience may have caused not only for her to lose her baby but maybe her relationship as well.

Inglore's Life
In the Film "Ingelore" it describes how Ingelore suffered at a young age because she was deaf. For example she did not say her first word until the age of six, and did not say a full sentence until twelve. She lived away from home at a Deaf school, where she was taught how to talk, during her childhood she was excluded for being Deaf because during this time it was wrong to have a "disability." During her adolescence she was sexually assaulted by two Nazi's soldiers. After this incident she had a chance to receive her visa to travel to America. She was able to obtain her visa while hiding the fact that she was Deaf. While living in America she found out she was pregnant, she proceeded to tell her doctor how it happened and the reason why she didn't want to continue her pregnancy. Her doctor went ahead and performed the abortion, keeping her in his office to help her with her recovery with the help of his wife. She later did get married and two sons of her own.

Helga Gross' Life
There is a video about Helga Gross where she talks about her childhood and life after the holocaust. Growing up her family always cared about her education and communication skills. Her and her brother were deaf, and her other siblings were hearing. During breakfast they would have a paper and pencil to write and practice German. She attended school and when she was around 11 or 12 teacher came in class where there were 6 boy and 4 girls, her being one of the girls, and then a government man came in and explained to them that they would have to go the hospital and get sterilized. All the students were confused, then the man proceed to explain to them that it meant that they would never have babies. Later that day Helga went home and explained this to her mother, but her mother wasn't surprised because she had received the letter where this was explained. Prior the procedure her father was very affectionate with Helga. She always asked why he loved her more but her mother always answered that he loved all his kids the same. The time went by and at the age of 16 Helga's mom let her know that she would be sterilized in two days. Helga was very calm when they let her know, later her mom asked why she was calm, she replied that she had accepted that it was going to happen. Helga's father did not want to see her before she left for her surgery. After she was sterilized her parents would cry because they would never have grandchildren from her. Helga later moved on to the America, and 5 years later went back to Germany, at that time she was already married, her little sister had just had a baby. She explained that she began to cry when she saw her sister holding her baby and feeding her baby. Her sister asked her why she was crying, she lied and said that it was because she was happy that she had a baby but in reality she was crying because she would never be a mom. Helga did marry a famous Deaf Olympic swimmer, who was also sterilized. He was forcefully sterilized at the age of 17. He had also received 2 letters but refused to get sterilized. The third time they went to get him and took him to the hospital, tied him and sterilized him with no anesthesia. She believes her marriage was a very great one because they we were both not able to have a family, so they supported each other a lot.