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«Avevo diciassette anni e sapevo quanto fosse rischioso frequentare quei giardinetti situati fra il liceo e casa mia. Io e alcuni compagni ci ritrovavamo lì dopo le lezioni, per chiacchierare tra noi. E per aspettare lo sconosciuto che ci avrebbe sedotto. Quel giorno, fra le braccia di un ladro, ho sentito l'orologio staccarsi dal polso. Ho gridato. Lui era già scappato via. Ignoravo che quel banale incidente avrebbe fatto precipitare la mia vita fino ad annientarla... L'episodio non ebbe effettivamente conseguenze famigliari e sociali immediate. Il ladro non fu mai trovato e io serbai di quella vicenda solo un ricordo che mi dava disagio. Non sapevo che il mio nome era appena stato inserito nello schedario degli omosessuali della città tenuto dalla polizia e che in tal modo, tre anni più tardi, i miei genitori avrebbero saputo della mia omosessualità. E soprattutto, come potevo immaginare che per questo sarei caduto nelle mani dei nazisti?»
- ISBN: 8845703347
- Casa Editrice: Massari Editore
- Pagine: 175
- Data di uscita: 16-07-2020
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Building on the canonical text "The Men with the Pink Triangles" by Hans Heger, Pierre Seel's account of being deported from Alsace, France and sent to a concentration camp because of his homosexuality by the Nazis is a stunning reminder that discrimination against the gays started before the Nazis
How do you comment on something like this? I feel like I'm hardly qualified, yet I also feel the need to say something about this book, which has not only touched me deeply, but altered something in the way I look at the past. Not that I was ever under any illusion about the hideous cruelty of the N Leggi tutto
This book does not only tell you about how the homosexuals have been inhumanly treated by the Nazi, but also shows how difficult the lives of LGBT people during the period were. After the WWII, while the people affected by the madness of Nazi were compensated by the government, LGBT people were scar Leggi tutto
I feel odd giving something so harrowing a 5 star review, but this is essential reading. What he suffered at the hands of the Nazis and then that he had to go back to a world that still didn't accept him and had to live behind a façade for his entire life. It is just so terribly sad and horrific. But Leggi tutto
Pierre Seel was a French gay Holocaust survivor. This is not the best written or most memorable Holocaust tale, or even the most horrifying (though it's plenty horrifying) I have read. But the fact that it is one of the very few GLBT survivor's accounts alone makes it worth reading. In his youth, be Leggi tutto
Who in the world is Pierre Seel, you ask ? Pierre Seel (8/16/23 – 11/25/05) was a gay Holocaust survivor and the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation by the Nazis during World War II due to his homosexuality. First of all, this isn’t so much a gay story as it Leggi tutto
Having read Elie Wiesel's famous Night this morning, it was a shocking pairing to read Seel's memoir of his own experience in the Nazi concentration camps this afternoon. No, I won't compare and contrast them, that is pointless: each will forever stand on their own as a record of man's brutality. I' Leggi tutto
Incredible, disturbing, and thoughtful. A necessary book for anyone looking at the experience of the Pink Triangles in the Holocaust and better translated than Heger's "The Men With The Pink Triangle". I'll be adding it to my growing dissertation bibliography.
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