David will tell the story of Josef Kohout who was arrested at the age of 22 and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and later to Flossenberg. Few of the ‘pink triangle prisoners’ survived the hunger and brutality they encountered and none of their stories emerged until the 1970s. After the war the West German government continued to arrest and imprison tens of thousands of gay men until the law changed in 1969. Since then, numerous ‘pink triangle’ memorials have been installed in cities all over the world.

David will light a candle during the Act of Commemoration and Humanist celebrant Maggie Pepin will give the Pledge.

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