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We can’t forget, we won’t forget: The Holocaust and the Pink Triangles.
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We can’t forget, we won’t forget: The Holocaust and the Pink Triangles.

Remembering the Pink Triangles: The Forgotten Stories of Queer Suffering in the Holocaust Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we reflect on one of the darkest chapters in human history – not just to remember the millions who perished but to honour the often-overlooked stories of queer individuals who suffered under the Nazi regime. Among the countless lives destroyed, a specific group bore a unique mark of hatred: the pink triangle. The pink triangle, now reclaimed as a symbol of LGBTQ+ pride and resilience, was once a badge of unimaginable horror. It marked gay men in Nazi concentration camps – men whose only “crime” was their love, identity, or defiance of societal norms. Their stories, silenced for decades, deserve to be told, heard, and remembered. Being Gay Under t...
Holocaust Memorial Day: the exercise of Remembering to Honour.
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Holocaust Memorial Day: the exercise of Remembering to Honour.

We remember… We are a people marked by the atrocities the hand of history has so unreluctantly laid bear our suffering. On January 27th, we all grieve together the loss of our loved ones and our people. We grieve those who entire generations have been wiped out and remember their names by lighting a candle, for the Jewish people are and will remain united by blood and by history. My family like so many others found themselves diminished to two or three survivors and those were the lucky ones. My mother’s side were a prosperous Portuguese Jewish family residing in Amsterdam, Holland. They were part of a historical community where tradition was valued, family was loved and religion was observed. The Okker’s came to Amsterdam as they were forced to flee Portugal - they were not strangers ...
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