Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article analyses five memoirs written or co-authored by self-identified German Jewish gay survivors of the Holocaust – Gad Beck, Walter Guttmann, Jerry Rosenstein, Harry Raymon and Alphons Silbermann. Each of these memoirs, all written more than 40 years after the Holocaust, differently narrates queer experiences during the Holocaust and constructs a gay Jewish identity in the face of extreme persecution and societal homophobia. In contrast to memoirs written by non-Jewish survivors who were persecuted by the Nazis under paragraph 175, these memoirs construct gay Jewish identity as a source of resistance.
Source: Holocaust Studies
Author: Helen Finch
Institution: University of Leeds
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7119519606