This is what I had wanted to write about today (and it's my first entry)...
As I was shelving a bunch of books in the kids' non-fiction section about the Holocaust, I looked through a few of them (it always really bothers me when I do) and also looked to see if any of them mentioned the persecution of homosexuals. Only one of the four I looked through did and go figure, of the three serious texts and one picture book, it was in the picture book at the end noting that several other groups were victims of the Nazis but that 'Holocaust' specifically refers to the slaughter of the Jews by the Nazi party.
So that got me thinking that you hardly ever hear anything intensive about the homosexuals that were sent to labor/extermination camps during the Holocaust and WWII. But then I realized that the only time that we hear anything about the Holocaust first-hand is by people who are near dying age and were children during the actual Holocaust. So any homosexuals who were at the camp probably would have been at least 18 or older (of old enough age to be sexually active/aware enough to be noticed) when they were sent to an extermination/labor camp. That means that even if any survived, they would have been dead by now.
...So there go the voices of the homosexual victims of the Holocaust. Another experience lost.
As I was shelving a bunch of books in the kids' non-fiction section about the Holocaust, I looked through a few of them (it always really bothers me when I do) and also looked to see if any of them mentioned the persecution of homosexuals. Only one of the four I looked through did and go figure, of the three serious texts and one picture book, it was in the picture book at the end noting that several other groups were victims of the Nazis but that 'Holocaust' specifically refers to the slaughter of the Jews by the Nazi party.
So that got me thinking that you hardly ever hear anything intensive about the homosexuals that were sent to labor/extermination camps during the Holocaust and WWII. But then I realized that the only time that we hear anything about the Holocaust first-hand is by people who are near dying age and were children during the actual Holocaust. So any homosexuals who were at the camp probably would have been at least 18 or older (of old enough age to be sexually active/aware enough to be noticed) when they were sent to an extermination/labor camp. That means that even if any survived, they would have been dead by now.
...So there go the voices of the homosexual victims of the Holocaust. Another experience lost.