Sunday, 12 January 2014

Tel Aviv Unveils Memorial Commemorating Gay Holocaust Victims

FSWC Reports:

From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:

Israel's cultural and financial capital unveiled a memorial Friday honoring gays and lesbians persecuted by the Nazis, the first specific recognition in Israel for non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. 

Tucked away in a Tel Aviv park, a concrete, triangle-shaped plaque details the plight of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people under Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. It resembles the pink triangles Nazis forced gays to wear in concentration camps during World War II and states in English, Hebrew and German: "In memory of those persecuted by the Nazi regime for their sexual orientation and gender identity."

READ MORE...   

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.