I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual (Paperback)

Pierre Seel

ISBN 10: 0465018483 / ISBN 13: 9780465018482

Published by Basic Books, New York, 2011

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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 our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual (Paperback)
• Publisher: Basic Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465018483
• ISBN 13: 9780465018482
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Pierre Seel (1923-2005) wrote Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel in 1994. In 2008, the municipality of Toulouse, France, renamed a street in honor of Pierre Seel.