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Deaf Historian, CDI Interpreter, and Scholar. His studies in Ph.D. research are about Deaf Jews as a transnational and hybrid community from the 19th to 20th century at the University of Hamburg/Germany. For his work, he got fellowships from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) for Yad Vashem. Currently, he is president of the non-profit Association of Deaf people with Jewish heritage in Germany (IGJAD). A nationally certified Deaf interpreter, he is the former president of the first worldwide professional association of Deaf sign language interpreters (tgsd). His milestone publications are 1. “Deaf Jews – a double cultural minority” (2003) and 2. “‘Deaf Holocaust. In: Mark Zaurov & K-B. Günther (Eds.), Overcoming the past, Determining its Consequences and Finding Solutions for the Present. A contribution to Deaf Studies and Sign Language Education. Proceedings of the 6th Deaf History International Conference July 31 - August 04, 2006, at the Humboldt University, Berlin.