Category: Pink triangles

On January 27, 1945, the doors of the Auschwitz field opened, showing the world absolute evil. Every year on that day we remember the extermination of the Jewish people, the racial laws and the extermination of thousands of people in the concentration camps because: Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Russians, dissidents, etc ... because someone had decided that they were not "normal". We want to remember the forgotten holocaust of many "pink triangles", men and women who were imprisoned, hungry, tortured and exterminated only because they are gay or lesbians. Not to forget read and listen to their stories.

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How did the nazis persecute queer people? A story of laws, erased lives and resistance

Testo rielaborato a partire da un saggio storico pubblicato sul sito Pink Triangle Legacies (Stati Uniti) il 24 gennaio 2024. Liberamente tradotto e adattato per la pubblicazione dai volontari del Progetto Gionata All’inizio non furono i campi di concentramento. Non furono neppure gli arresti di massa. La persecuzione delle persone queer da parte del regime nazista cominciò in modo più...

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Esistere era già una colpa. Le persone LGBT+ nella persecuzione nazista

Quando ricordiamo la persecuzione nazista delle persone omosessuali, spesso lo facciamo attraverso simboli e leggi: il triangolo rosa, il paragrafo 175, i campi di concentramento. Tutto vero. Ma non basta. Per fare memoria davvero serve tornare alle vite concrete, ai corpi, alle relazioni, ai nomi. Perché accanto agli uomini gay, più visibili nei documenti ufficiali, ci sono state donne lesbiche...

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Because if understanding the holocaust is impossible, knowing is necessary

On January 27, the day of memory, we are called to remember the victims of the Holocaust, a genocide that hit millions of people: Jews, Roma, people with disabilities, political dissidents and also homosexual men and women. Among these, the tragic testimony of Pierre Seel, deported to the Schormeck-Vorbrück concentration camp due to his homosexuality, is a cry of pain that ...

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Hidden story: Eleonore Behar's queer life during the Nazi holocaust

Text by Anna Hájková*, published on the LSBTTIQ website in Baden und Württemberg (Germany) on January 27, 2017. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. On April 19, 1945, in the ghetto of Theresienstadt (Czech Republic), a transport of Hungarian Jews came from the forced labor field of Immendorf, in the region of the Lower Austria. Among these were the twenty -three year old Anna ...

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What the traces of the queer lives survived the Nazi persecution tell us

Text by Elsa Fischbach, published on the Center of the Center LGBTIQ+ Cigale (Luxembourg) on ​​January 31, 2023. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. Memory implies knowledge. This article is dedicated to the Day of Remembrance (which is celebrated on January 27), and explores the traces left by the queer lives in the context of National Socialism. One of the most studied aspects is ...

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Peace in Europe is the only way to pay homage to the victims of the Shoah

Reflections by Lavinia Capogna 27 January Memory day. The Shoah, which in ancient Jewish means "devastating storm", "absolute destruction" indicates the extermination made by Hitler and the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945 of those who believed "lower breed" or "degenener". The victims were between 15 and 17 million. He started with the ...

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Felice and Lilly. A love story between women in Nazi berlin

Article by Tanja B. Spitzer* published on the website of the National Museum of the Second World War of New Orleans (United States) on March 8, 2021, freely translated by Silvia Lanzi Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim fall into Berlin during the war. Letters and poems tell a story of love, courage and persecution. And they also show the pitfalls of the historical truth told ...

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"I Pierre Seel". Life of a homosexual deporteate

Review by Giorgio Gervasoni "I, Pierre Seel, homosexual deporteate" (ed. Massari Editore, 2020). The original text, in French, dates back to 1994, published in Paris with the title Moi, Pierre Seel, Déperté Homosexuel. Récit écrit en collaboration Avec Jean Le Bitoux. It is the autobiographical story that Pierre Seel, born in 1923 in Haguenau in Alsace, near Mulhouse and Strasbourg, does ...