Plan for Warsaw Monument To Gay Victims of Nazi Concentration Camps

[Ian David]

WARSAW, January 16, 2007 – Gays in Poland revealed last night a plan to erect a monument in the centre of Warsaw that will be a permanent reminder of the “Pink Triangle” gays who were slaughtered in the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War.

And the plan has already won the support of some city councillors in the Polish capital.

“Warsaw should be a city of equal rights,” said Councillor Bartosz Dominiak of Lewica and Demokraci. “We will support the erection of the monument.” Mr. Dominiak added that he will be urging councillors from Platforma Obywatelska to also support the scheme.

And Pawe? Czekalski from the Platforma party did not dismiss the idea. “We will consider it,” he said. The monument will be a meter and a half long and of the shape of a pink triangle, the symbol that homosexuals were obliged to wear in Nazi Germany and in concentration camps.

“We have to build this monument so that the people will not forget the thousands of gays who were murdered in the concentration camps of Poland,” said ?ukasz Pa?ucki, the founder of the Citizens’ Initiative to Commemorate Gays and Lesbians. “World War II is evidence that intolerance, anti-Semitism and homophobia lead to concentration camps. History has proved that hated towards other groups leads to homicide.

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[ncrainbowgrrl]

1. Thanks for posting this.

I lack words to describe what this means to me. This is a truly huge step for historical memory. As a queer jew... well... it's a symbolic gesture that touches me on many emotional levels...

[mitchtv]

2. nice idea,

Too bad it will be met with hate and violence in that nice Catholic country.

[Meeker Morgan]

3. Let's not forget ...

We were totally illegal in all the Allied countries, too.