A memorial Berl, Germany was recently unveiled memory of gay victims of the Holot. Volker Beck, a member of the German parliament and supporter of the memorial, explas what the memorial symboliz for members of the gay holot survivors and their fai.
Contents:
- THREE GAY HOLOT SURVIVORS REMEMBER
- THE BARELY REMEMBERED GAY VICTIMS OF THE NAZI CONCENTRATN CAMPS
- GAY HOLOT MEMORIAL HONORS PA, SACRIFICE
THREE GAY HOLOT SURVIVORS REMEMBER
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 victims of the holocaust *
” Wh the words his 1994 memoir, Pierre Seel—one of the few gay Holot survivors to publicly share his experience—scribed his arrival at the Schirmeck-Vorbrück ncentratn mp on May 13, 1941.
THE BARELY REMEMBERED GAY VICTIMS OF THE NAZI CONCENTRATN CAMPS
Havg been arrted on acunt of his homosexualy Nazi-occupied France, Seel was terrogated, tortured and forced to watch his lover beg mled by a pack of dogs—all before he’d even turned 18. Wh the Natnal Socialist visn, homosexualy reprented an sid “threat” to the “Aryan” race’s survival that need to be stamped out.
GAY HOLOT MEMORIAL HONORS PA, SACRIFICE
Although male homosexual activy had been technilly illegal Germany sce the 19th century, was generally tolerated and even celebrated wh certa urban circl prr to Adolf Hler’s ascensn to power 1933.