Tel Aviv unveils memorial to gay Holot victims

TEL AVIV UNVEILS FIRST MEMORIAL TO GAY HOLOT VICTIMS

Tel Aviv be the first Israeli cy to unveil a memorial honour of gay and lbian victims of the Nazi Holot. * gay holocaust memorial berlin *

Jt across the street om the Memorial to the Murred Jews of Europe, this stere grey cuboid that ss a quiet rner of Berl’s Tiergarten was missned to pay tribute to the long-ignored thoands of homosexual dividuals who were imprisoned, tortured, and murred the Holot.

Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime rried out a mpaign agast male homosexualy.

They harassed Germany’s gay muni and arrted thoands of gay men unr Paragraph 175, the statute of the German crimal that banned sexual relatns between men.

A plan to exchange an image of kissg men wh kissg women at a gay Holot memorial Berl is drawg prott om some scholars. Erected May 2008, the memorial to the timated 5,000 to 15,000 homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis is a gray ncrete slab signed by Ingar Dragset and Mich... * gay holocaust memorial berlin *

More than 50, 000 men were nvicted of the “offense” of homosexualy, and between 5, 000 and 15, 000 were sent to ncentratn mps. After World War II, the homosexual victims of Nazi Germany were not officially regnized.

On the si of the memorial, visors n look through a small wdow where a vio showg gay upl kissg is displayed on a loop. Image source, AFPImage ptn, People lay flowers at the memorial to the thoands of gay people killed by the Nazis durg WW2Tel Aviv has bee the first Israeli cy to unveil a memorial honour of gay and lbian victims of the Nazi Holot.

The monument the centre of the cy is signed around a pk triangle - the symbol gay prisoners were forced to wear the ncentratn mps.

GAY HOLOT MEMORIAL BERL

Tens of thoands of gay men and lbians were persecuted by the Nazis but stigma and a lack of rearch fundg has kept their history hidn. * gay holocaust memorial berlin *

"In addn to the extermatn of Europe's Jews, the Nazis mted many atroci, an attempt to stroy anyone who was nsired different, " said Tel Aviv Mayor Ron source, APImage ptn, The monument is the form of a pk triangle - a symbol that gay prisoners were forced to wear"This monument remds all how important is for to rpect every human beg, " he monument, unveiled on Friday, will stand outsi the Municipal LGBT Communy Centre Tel Aviv's Meir Park (Gan Meir) ambassador Andreas Michaelis said: "It is important that we put up monuments and name streets, orr to remember thgs that happened the past.

"The Nazis brand homosexualy an aberratn threateng their perceptn of Germans as the master race, and the Gtapo kept a special register of around 100, 000 gay people. Thoands were sent to Nazi ncentratn mps the 1930s and Aviv has a vibrant gay scene and hosts an annual gay pri on this story. Before Feifer’s project, there was also Mark Alman’s “Stelen (Columns)” (2012), which culls pictur om var gay datg s of 100 (admtedly hot) men posg at the Holot Memorial Berl.

GERMANY UNVEILS MEMORIAL TO GAY VICTIMS OF HOLOT

TEL AVIV — Israel’s cultural and fancial pal has unveiled a memorial honorg gays and lbians persecuted by the Nazis durg World War II. It shows a pk triangle — the symbol gays were forced to wear ncentratn mps. The landmark jos siar memorials Amsterdam, Berl, San Francis and Sydney dited to gay victims of the Holot.