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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Today, we are using the International Holocaust Remembrance Day to talk about the important history of the Holocaust. The international Memorial Day held on the 27th of January every year was introduced following the liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, by the Red Army. Historians put the death toll of Jews and other groups including ethnic Poles, Soviet civilians, and prisoners of war, Roma, disabled, political, and religious dissidents at 11 million. Often forgotten, the victims of Nazi Germany also include gay men marked with the Pink Triangle. It is now believed that between 5,000 to 15,000 gay men were sent to concentration camps of whom 3,000 to 10,000 met their deaths as part of the Holocaust. Sarah had the chance to talk to Dr. Alexander Zinn, historian as well as a sociologist from Germany, talking about the LGBTQ+ group of victims of the Holocaust for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021. The article and the interview are part of our queer history series on Couple of Men.

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