Gay and lesbian exposure in Nazi Europe

Anthropometric photographs of John Walter, gay deportee, Auschwitz camp. Poland, 08-1941 (c) Shoah Memorial – Coll. Auschwitz Museum

In 2021, for the first time in France, a history museum chronologically and thematically retraces the history of the persecution of homosexuals and lesbians under the Third Reich by relying on a rich selection of documents mostly never presented in France.

Exhibition curator: Florence Tamagne (lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Lille, specialist in the history of homosexuality)

The Shoah Memorial offers a series of conferences and meetings around the exhibition Gay and Lesbians in Nazi Europe.

New! Visit the exhibition Homosexual and lesbians in Nazi Europe with Florence Tamagne, curator of the exhibition 

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