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Last Gay Jewish Holocaust Survivor Dies
Via Jerusalem Post:
Gad Beck, an anti-Nazi Zionist resistance fighter and the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, died on Sunday in Berlin. He passed away in a senior citizens' home six days before his 89th birthday, which would have been on June 30. Beck was a pioneering gay activist and educator in a severely anti-homosexual, repressive post-World War II German society. He was famous for his witty, lively style of speaking. On a German talk show, he said, The Americans in New York called me a great hero. I said no... Im really a little hero. Perhaps the single most important experience that shaped his life was the wartime effort to rescue his boyfriend. Beck donned a Hitler Youth uniform and entered a deportation center to free his Jewish lover Manfred Lewin, who had declined to separate himself from his family.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/06/last-gay-jewish-holocaust-survivor-dies.html
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)not the ones that promote corporate welfare....
William769
(55,151 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Very sad.
William769
(55,151 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)K and R
closeupready
(29,503 posts)If it was ever true that someone knew how to make lemonade from a life full of lemons, it was true of Gad Beck.
RIP, dear soul.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)what an incredible man
Behind the Aegis
(54,074 posts)It is incredible to see stories such as this, and now he is the last. It is very sad on a number of levels.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)we need to remember him.