Anthropometric photographs of John Walter, deported homosexual, Auschwitz camp. Poland, 08-1941 (c) Shoah Memorial – Coll. Auschwitz Museum
The exhibition "Homosexuals and lesbians in Nazi Europe" is extended until May 22, 2022.
In 2021, for the first time in France, a history museum traces chronologically and thematically the history of the persecution of homosexuals and lesbians under the Third Reich based on a rich selection of documents mostly never presented in France.
For a long time taboo, the destiny of pink triangles, if it has been, for thirty years, the subject of historical research at the forefront, remains still unknown. Indeed, it was only thanks to the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1970s that the subject began to be debated, raising many questions that constitute memorial issues: what was the nature of the persecutions? How many people were affected? Were all homosexuals targeted? What was the fate of lesbians? What were the territories affected by the repression, notably in France? How to honor the memory of the victims?
Curator of the exhibition: Florence Tamagne (lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Lille, specialist in the history of homosexuality)
