Description
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.
Author: Pierre Seel
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.59w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9780465018482
ISBN10: 0465018483
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies
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.