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COMMENTARY: Also remembering the African-American Holocaust survivors

The Rev. Irene Monroe - SDGLN Guest Contributor
April 11th, 2013

This week, April 8-12, marks the 27th annual observance of Holocaust Memorial Week. The week is about remembering not only the 6 million Jews murdered but also remembering the millions of allies, martyrs and victims who survived Nazi Germany's reign of brutality.

Human rights groups to politicians: Boycott Values Voter Summit that embraces anti-gay extremism

SDGLN Staff
September 11th, 2012

NEW YORK -- A coalition of human rights groups is calling on public officials not to attend the upcoming Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., because its host, the Family Research Council, has spread demonizing lies about the LGBT community, and because one of its co-sponsors, the American Family Association, has linked homosexuality to the Holocaust.

Gad Beck, last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, dies at 89

Brody Levesque - LGBTQ Nation
June 26th, 2012

BERLIN — Gad Beck, a pioneering gay rights activist and educator in a severely anti-homosexual, repressive post-World War II German culture, has died, just six days before his 89th birthday.

Beck was believed to be the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.

Beck who was famous for his humorous style of speaking once told a German radio host, “The Americans in New York called me a great hero. I said no… I’m really a little hero.”

New comic book examines fate of gays in Nazi Europe

Paul Canning – LGBT Asylum News
November 16th, 2011

French graphic artists Michel Dufranne and Milorad Vicanovic-Maza with Christian Lerolle have produced the first comic book about the gay experience of the Holocaust.

It tells the story of "discreet, cheerful and romantic" designer and advertising art teacher, Andreas from the early 1930s in Berlin.

FILM REVIEW with VIDEO: “Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today” is horrifying, riveting

Jean Lowerison - SDGLN Critic
June 10th, 2011

Of all the World War II documentaries, “Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today” is the first. It’s also the official one about the first Nuremberg trial, and has been withheld from U.S. distribution until now.

When the war was over and the top Nazi brass charged with crimes against humanity, prosecutors wanted to make their case using the Nazis’ own records.

Stuart Schulberg (with U.S. government funding) was assigned the task of sifting through the records in Berlin and assembling the film.

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