A Monument to Homosexual Victims Of Holocaust Will Be Erected In Tel-AvivMay 11, 2008 |
The agreement on creation and erection of the monument was signed by representatives of Tel-Aviv municipality and the leader of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) movement Itai Pinkas. This was announced on The Day Of Remembrance For Victims of Holocaust, that takes place in Israel yearly. Six million Jewish became victims of Nazists.
According to Ron Huldai, the mayor of Tel-Aviv, the movement presents a metallic triangle with names of the victims engraved on it.
Homosexuals in concentration camps had to wear pink triangles on their clothes. Pink triangles served a kind of "identification sign" for fascists, like yellow hexagrams were a sign of being a Jewish. Since that time pink triangle is the international symbol of LGBT movement.
According to the mayor the monument will become the first Israel's memorial to homosexual victims of fascism.
Monuments to gay and lesbian victims of fascists have already been erected in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, San Francisco, Australian Sidney. Temporary monument to gays and lesbians who became victims of fascists has been fixed up in Berlin. The monument is in development stage.
American Holocaust museum in Washington has also dedicated an exhibition to gays and lesbians who were slaughtered by fascists.
In accordance with German criminal code that prohibited sexual relationships between persons of the same sex, thousands of gays and lesbians were arrested and sent to concentration camps where they perished from hard labor in exile or were burned in crematoriums.
Representatives of Orthodox Judaism did not approve the idea of creating a memorial and claimed that this will be an insult to the memory to millions of Nazism's victims.
About a month ago Joseph Devine, a catholic episcope from Scotland accused gays and lesbians of using Holocaust for their interests.
