Sprechende Hände. Das Taubstummblinden-Heim in Nowawes bei Potsdam

Release date: 1925-06-22
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Genres: Documentary
A documentary with 65 intertitles about life and work at Oberlin House, a home for deafblind people in Nowawes near Potsdam.
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