I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual

2011-04-26
I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual
Author: Pierre Seel
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0465023835
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On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of his journey through the horrors of a concentration camp. For nearly forty years, Seel kept this secret in order to hide his homosexuality. Eventually he decided to speak out, bearing witness to an aspect of the Holocaust rarely seen. This edition, with a new foreword from gay-literature historian Gregory Woods, is an extraordinary firsthand account of the Nazi roundup and the deportation of homosexuals.

Liberation Was For Others

1997-03-21
Liberation Was For Others
Author: Pierre Seel
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1997-03-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:
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At the age of seventeen, in the arms of a thief, Pierre Seel felt his watch sliding off his wrist. So begins the astonishing chain of events that led to the Schirmeck-Vorbruch concentration camp, where Seel suffered unspeakable horrors for the sole "crime" of being a homosexual. The story of survival in the camps has been told many times, but Seel's is one of the only firsthand accounts of the Nazi roundup and deportation of homosexuals. For nearly forty years he kept his experiences - including torture, humiliation, and witnessing the vicious murder of his lover at the hands of the Nazis - a secret in order to cover up his homosexuality. He found a wife through a personal ad, married, and raised three children. "The Liberation", he writes, "was for others". Finally, haunted by his experiences and by the silence of others, he decided to bear witness to an aspect of the Holocaust rarely seen. As he noted, "If I do not speak, I will become the accomplice of my torturers".

I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual

2011-04-26
I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual
Author: Pierre Seel
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0465023835
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On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of his journey through the horrors of a concentration camp. For nearly forty years, Seel kept this secret in order to hide his homosexuality. Eventually he decided to speak out, bearing witness to an aspect of the Holocaust rarely seen. This edition, with a new foreword from gay-literature historian Gregory Woods, is an extraordinary firsthand account of the Nazi roundup and the deportation of homosexuals.

An Underground Life

1999
An Underground Life
Author: Gad Beck
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780299165048
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That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and without vitriol, and has written about it so beautifully is truly miraculous. This is Gad Beck's story.

The Pink Triangle

2011-04-01
The Pink Triangle
Author: Richard Plant
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1429936932
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This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS--persecution that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests and thousands of deaths. In this Nazi crusade, homosexual prisoners were confined to death camps where, forced to wear pink triangles, they constituted the lowest rung in the camp hierarchy. The horror of camp life is described through diaries, previously untranslated documents, and interviews with and letters from survivors, revealing how the anti-homosexual campaign was conducted, the crackpot homophobic fantasies that fueled it, the men who made it possible, and those who were its victims, this chilling book sheds light on a corner of twentieth-century history that has been hidden in the shadows much too long.

Liebestrasse

2022-07-12
Liebestrasse
Author: Greg Lockard
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506724558
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Nominated for Outstanding Comic by the GLAAD Media Awards, Liebestrasse tells the heart-wrenching, poignant tale of forbidden love and survival through the rise of hatred. During the final years of the Weimar Republic, Sam, an American banker, meets Philip, a German art critic, and they fall in love. Their romance is hit with an unspeakable reality as the Nazis come to power and fascism makes them a target. Debut writer Greg Lockard (Where We Live Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology) and artist Tim Fish (Saved by the Bell, Cavalcade of Boys) prove that even through the harshest conditions, love will find a way to thrive. 2020 GLAAD MEDIA NOMINEE FOR OUTSTANDING COMIC “Liebestrasse feels like an extremely needed graphic novel that has a lot of lessons that are still relevant and timely today.”–PRIDE “The real strength of Liebestrasse: it's a simple and quiet period piece that starkly juxtaposes our current political climate, while also being eerily similar in ways that are all too easy to forget. These parallels are not an explicit part of the story, but they don't have to be—the bare facts of the reality faced by these queer men makes their story even more frighteningly relevant.”–Boing Boing

Fragments

1996
Fragments
Author: Binjamin Wilkomirski
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:
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Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soldiers in 1945.

Branded by the Pink Triangle

2013-04-22
Branded by the Pink Triangle
Author: Ken Setterington
Publisher: Second Story Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2013-04-22
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 192692097X
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Before the rise of the Nazi party, Germany, especially Berlin, was one of the most tolerant places for homosexuals in the world. Activists, including Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein, campaigned openly for the rights of gay men and women, and tried to repeal the old existing law against homosexuality. But all that would change when the Nazis came to power and existence for gay people turned into one of fear. Raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews and any other groups the Nazis wanted to suppress. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of the persecution of homosexuals, a persecution that would continue for many years after the war. A mix of historical research, first person accounts, and individual stories bring this time to life for readers. Stories of bravery in the face of inhuman cruelty, friendship found in the depths of despair in the camps, and the perseverance of the human spirit will both educate and inspire.

Aladdin's Problem

1992
Aladdin's Problem
Author: Ernst Jünger
Publisher: Eridanos Library
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Elegant allegorical tale of Frederick Baroh, descended from a once aristocratic family, who joins his uncle's funeral business and develops a vast, lucrative necropolis.