Last gay Jewish Holot survivor di - The Jesalem Post

Contents:

• THREE GAY HOLOT SURVIVORS REMEMBER
• MARGOT HMAN, WHO BORE WNS TO THE HOLOT AS A GAY WOMAN, DI AT 94
• THE NAZI WAR ON GAY PEOPLE: SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT
• WERE GAY CONCENTRATN CAMP PRISONERS 'PUT BACK PRISON' AFTER WORLD WAR II?
• THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI
• LIST OF GERMAN GAY MEN PORTED TO ACHWZ. (ID: 33060)
• REMEMBERG THE FOTTEN GAY STORI OF ACHWZ
• LAST GAY JEWISH HOLOT SURVIVOR DI

THREE GAY HOLOT SURVIVORS REMEMBER

Due to limed rearch fundg, the high ath rate of gay men the mps, and the stigma attached to homosexualy, the victims are often fotten by the world. This clud more than 100 gay and lbian bars and f, songs and films, and Magn Hirschfeld’s Instut für Sexualwissenschaft (the Instute for Sexual Science), which ntaed thoands of books and journals on sexualy and genr. Dpe Paragraph 175, which crimalised male homosexualy the German crimal , LGBTQ+ people tend to be observed and monored rather than persecuted.

Some Nazis believed that the majory of, if not all, homosexuals were Jewish bee many of the proment advot of gay rights and equaly were (cludg Hirschfeld as well as progrsive psychiatrists, physicians, lawyers and jurists). More than 100, 000 men intified as homosexual were arrted and many sent to ncentratn mps at Buchenwald, Dach, Sachsenhsen, Mthsen and Achwz, where between 5, 000 and 15, 000 of them died. They were, acrdg to ttimoni by straight and gay survivors, treated worse than other groups (except Jews) bee they were nsired viant.

This was bee many Nazis believed that hard labour – work gravel ps, cement plants and brickworks – uld “turn” gay men straight.

MARGOT HMAN, WHO BORE WNS TO THE HOLOT AS A GAY WOMAN, DI AT 94

Ttimony om Hez Heger, a gay Atrian ncentratn mp survivor (whose real name was Josef Kohout), provis sights to homosexual experienc the mps. Heger relled that gay men had to sleep wh their hands above their blankets, and if they didn’t they were taken outsi and had buckets of water thrown at them. Homosexualy was not crimalised Germany until 1967 East Germany and 1969 Wt Germany, and so a number of survivors end up back prison.

THE NAZI WAR ON GAY PEOPLE: SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT

While Jews, children, and polil prisoners uld apply for fancial and moral support om the new German ernments, homosexual men uld not.

Though the opprsn of gay men durg the Holot may have fad om public memory, hate crim agast LGBTQ+ people around the world are still rife. Between 1933 and 1945 when the Nazis me to power Germany an timated 100, 000 homosexual men were arrted, of whom 50, 000 were sentenced unr crimal law Paragraph 175. Rudolf Brazda, believed to be the last survivg person who was sent to a Nazi ncentratn mp bee of his homosexualy, died France Augt 2011, aged 98.

WERE GAY CONCENTRATN CAMP PRISONERS 'PUT BACK PRISON' AFTER WORLD WAR II?

Brazda, who settled France after the war, was 2010 award the Legn of Honour, for his varied rol speakg out about Nazi treatment of homosexuals and France’s shameful role portg s Jews and homosexuals. Others bartered wh their female guards sex for food or safety, or sought timacy wh fellow prisoners though neher partner intified as gay.

Hajkova said, homophobia was rampant the mps, spe the progrsive culture of Weimar Germany and the nascent prewar movement across Eastern Europe to crimalize homosexualy, which had been cut short by the rise of the Ms. More about Penelope GreenA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 19 of the New York edn wh the headle: Margot Hman, 94, Who Bore Wns to the Holot as a Gay Woman, Di. They refute the mastream “neo-revisnist” history books and documentari about the Third Reich, which shockgly ignored or dismissed the Nazi war agast gay and bisexual men.

“We mt extermate the people (homosexuals) root and branch … We n’t perm such danger to the untry; the homosexual mt be entirely elimated”. Together wh five others – and one lbian – he rells the homophobic wch-hunts of the Third Reich the gut-wrenchg film, Paragraph 175. The dignified, fiant ttimoni of the gay survivors refute the “neo-revisnism” of mastream holot histori that neglect the Nazi persecutn of homosexuals.

THE PK TRIANGLE: FROM NAZI LABEL TO SYMBOL OF GAY PRI

Stormtroopers ransacked the headquarters of the pro-gay rights anisatn, the Instute of Sexual Science, and publicly burned s vast library of “generate” books. Acrdg to Himmler: “Those who practice homosexualy prive Germany of the children they owe her … our natn will fall to piec bee of that plague”.

The Nazis aga tensified the war agast what they lled “abnormal existence” 1935, broang the fn of homosexual behavur and the grounds for arrt.

LIST OF GERMAN GAY MEN PORTED TO ACHWZ. (ID: 33060)

Later, Himmler thorised a scientific programme for the eraditn of “this vice”, wh gay prisoners beg subjected to gome medil experiments – cludg hormone implants and stratn. The Nazis set out to eradite all racial and geic “ferrs” – not jt Jews, but also gay, disabled, black, Slav, Roma and Sti people.

Gay men rcerated Nazi ncentratn mps durg World War II were forced back to prison even after the Allied forc won that nflict. The post was acpanied by a picture of a pk triangle -- the symbol officials Nazi Germany ed to intify and ostracize gay ncentratn mp prisoners -- and a quote drawn om the webse for The Pk Triangle of San Francis, an annual event rememberg those victimized unr Nazi le:. Between 1933 and 1945, an timated 100, 000 men were arrted for vlatg Nazi Germany's law agast homosexualy, and of the, approximately 50, 000 were sentenced to prison.

The men arrted for beg gay were targeted unr a revised versn of a 19th century statute, Paragraph 175, which was expand to tegorize homosexualy as a crime of "cency. And their alli feated the Nazi regime, the law remaed effect after World War II, as the Holot Memorial mm's exhib on the regime's anti-gay persecutn stat:. Unr the Allied occupatn, some homosexuals were forced to serve out their terms of imprisonment regardls of time served the ncentratn mps.

REMEMBERG THE FOTTEN GAY STORI OF ACHWZ

The Nazi versn of Paragraph 175 remaed on the books of the Feral Republic of Germany (Wt Germany) until the law was revised 1969 to crimalize homosexual relatns between men over the age of 21.

On 22 March 2017, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her bet approved a bill that overturned nvictns for gay men which had rried out unr Paragraph 175 between 1949 and 1969 and also provid pensatn for survivg victims. The Nazi symbol for gay ncentratn mp prisoners has gone through a change of s own, as the Pk Triangle of San Francis's se stat:.

The pk triangle symbol has sce evolved to an important remr for the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny of the ntug homophobia and humany agast them and other reprsed mori around the world. In the Fall of 1933, the first transport of homosexuals arrived at Fuhlsbüttel ncentratn mp Hamburg, Germany, a small Nazi mp that has an timated 500 victims.

LAST GAY JEWISH HOLOT SURVIVOR DI

Some Amerin and Brish lawyers even mand that homosexuals nvicted unr Article 175 serve out their full sentenc after beg released om ncentratn mps and many were forced to do so. The Homomonument Amsterdam is, like many of the monuments, shaped like a large pk triangle wh the pots leadg to other plac to vis such as the Anne Frank hoe.

In Berl, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Unr Nazism ss across the street om the well-known Memorial to the Murred Jews of Europe.

When talkg about the cisn to make a vio, the artists explaed that as long as people are repulsed by gay people kissg somethg is missg, and that is the basis for vio wh the monument. New York self has a few LGBT monuments and landmarks such as the Stonewall Inn, the Gay Liberatn monument, and recently a newly missned monument to be stalled at Hudson River Park. The Amazg Life of Margot Hman offers a medatn on bearg ttimony, on first love and on makg space for queer romance otherwise homophobic surroundgs – often when the stak are life and ath.