I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual (Paperback)

Paperback. On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of his journey through the horrors of a concentration camp. For nearly forty years, Seel kept this secret in order to hide his homosexuality. Eventually he decided to speak out, bearing witness to an aspect of the Holocaust rarely seen. This edition, with a new foreword from gay-literature historian Gregory Woods, is an extraordinary firsthand account of the Nazi roundup and the deportation of homosexuals. A new edition of Pierre Seel's moving testimony of deportation for homosexuality--a classic of Holocaust literature Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.