Liberation Was for Others Memoirs of a Gay Survivor of the Nazi Holocaust

Seel, Pierre

ISBN 10: 0306807564 / ISBN 13: 9780306807565

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Trade Paperback. Light Shelf wear. Clean and tight, lightly read copy. Da Capo Pr, 1997. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. A Fine Softcover. Packed carefully and shipped promptly. Bookseller Inventory # 708059

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Title: Liberation Was for Others Memoirs of a Gay ...

Binding: Paperback; First Printing

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Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

At the age of seventeen, in the arms of a thief, Pierre Seel felt his watch sliding off his wrist. So begins the astonishing chain of events that led to the Schirmeck-Vorbruch concentration camp, where Seel suffered unspeakable horrors for the sole "crime" of being a homosexual.
The story of survival in the camps has been told many times, but Seel's is one of the only firsthand accounts of the Nazi roundup and deportation of homosexuals. For nearly forty years he kept his experiences - including torture, humiliation, and witnessing the vicious murder of his lover at the hands of the Nazis - a secret in order to cover up his homosexuality. He found a wife through a personal ad, married, and raised three children. "The Liberation," he writes, "was for others." Finally, haunted by his experiences and by the silence of others, he decided to bear witness to an aspect of the Holocaust rarely seen. As he noted, "If I do not speak, I will become the accomplice of my torturers."

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French