Gad Beck, profiled in Miami Herald a decade ago, now the last known gay survivor of Holocaust

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Last week, news outlets including The New York Times reported the death of Rudolf Brazda, the last remaining gay survivor of the Holocaust.

Today, Dallas Voice reports that another gay survivor remains: Gad Beck, who wrote an autobiography, An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin, and was profiled a decade ago in a documentary about gays and the Holocaust, Paragraph 175.

Ten years ago, before a screening of Paragraph 175 at Temple Israel of Greater Miami, I interviewed Beck.

Then age 78, Beck wept during our telephone talk as he spoke of how he lost his "great, great love' to the Nazis during World War II.

Here's my profile of Beck from Nov. 17, 2001:



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1. I read his autobiography, which was fascinating.

An irrepressible spirit.

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2. Thank you for this information.

I would posit there may well be others out there as well. I hope they also come forward. Paragraph 175 was an excellent movie, and a real tear-jerker is Bent.