![]() ![]() The truth is that for the queer survivors of Nazi oppression, 1945 did not bring about any kind of liberation rather, it marked the beginning of a systematic process of persecution and willful suppression-one that would result in their erasure from the pages of popular history. ![]() This, however, isn’t the consequence of an accidental historical oversight. Having been arrested on account of his homosexuality in Nazi-occupied France, Seel was interrogated, tortured and forced to watch his lover being mauled by a pack of dogs-all before he’d even turned 18.Įighty years later, while Holocaust remembrance has become an integral part of our civic duties, stories like those of Seel and other LGBTQ victims are often missing from that collective memory. ![]() We were instantly overcome with terror.” With these words in his 1994 memoir, Pierre Seel-one of the few gay Holocaust survivors to publicly share his experience-described his arrival at the Schirmeck-Vorbrück concentration camp on May 13, 1941. “We saw barracks surrounded by a double circle of high fences… A torrent of blows awaited us. ![]()
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