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LGBTQ* History In The News Pride Month News You Should Know (the following text from JPost.com) Last gay Jewish Holocaust survivor dies By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL,  Gad Beck, a resistance fighter during World War II, passes away in Berlin days before his 89th birthday BERLIN – Gad Beck, an anti-Nazi Zionist resistance fighter and the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, died on Sunday in Berlin. He passed away in a senior citizens’ home six days before his 89th birthday, which would have been on June 30.Beck was a pioneering gay activist and educator in a severely anti-homosexual, repressive post-World War II German society. He was famous for his witty, lively style of speaking.On a German talk show, he said, “The Americans in New Yorkcalled me a great hero. I said no… I’m really a little hero.”Perhaps the single most important experience that shaped his life was the wartime effort to rescue his boyfriend. Beck donned a Hitler Youth uniform and entered a deportation center to free his Jewish lover Manfred Lewin, who had declined to separate himself from his family.The Nazis would later deport the entire Lewin family to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.Speaking about his life as a gay Jew, Beck invoked a line frequently cited about homosexuality: “God doesn’t punish for a life of love.” Read more HERE For more KNOWhomo posts on the Pink Triangle/gay Holocaust persecution: A Survivor’s Story — Read Here Paragraph 175 — Read Here Pink Triangle History — Read Here (Upsetting) Post-Camp History — Read Here Pink Triangle Memorial — Read Here  Photo Blog Series — Look Here Theatre/Play about Pink Triangles: Bent — Read Here Graphic Novel, including a Hitler Youth Homosexual Relationship —Read Here

LGBTQ* History In The News

Pride Month News You Should Know


(the following text from JPost.com)

Last gay Jewish Holocaust survivor dies

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, 

Gad Beck, a resistance fighter during World War II, passes away in Berlin days before his 89th birthday

BERLIN – Gad Beck, an anti-Nazi Zionist resistance fighter and the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, died on Sunday in Berlin. He passed away in a senior citizens’ home six days before his 89th birthday, which would have been on June 30.

Beck was a pioneering gay activist and educator in a severely anti-homosexual, repressive post-World War II German society. He was famous for his witty, lively style of speaking.

On a German talk show, he said, “The Americans in New Yorkcalled me a great hero. I said no… I’m really a little hero.”

Perhaps the single most important experience that shaped his life was the wartime effort to rescue his boyfriend. Beck donned a Hitler Youth uniform and entered a deportation center to free his Jewish lover Manfred Lewin, who had declined to separate himself from his family.

The Nazis would later deport the entire Lewin family to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

Speaking about his life as a gay Jew, Beck invoked a line frequently cited about homosexuality: “God doesn’t punish for a life of love.”

Read more HERE


For more KNOWhomo posts on the Pink Triangle/gay Holocaust persecution:


A Survivor’s Story — Read Here

Paragraph 175 — Read Here

Pink Triangle History — Read Here

(Upsetting) Post-Camp History — Read Here

Pink Triangle Memorial — Read Here 

Photo Blog Series — Look Here

Theatre/Play about Pink Triangles: Bent — Read Here

Graphic Novel, including a Hitler Youth Homosexual Relationship —Read Here

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