Liverpool to remember gay Holocaust victims

On Friday a pink triangle wreath will be laid in Liverpool to remember all the gay men who died at the hands of Nazi. The ceremony forms part of the Holocaust Memorial Day.

Over 65,000 gay men from Europe were persecuted, murdered or interned between 1934 and 1945 and suffered some of the most inhuman treatment in the Nazi concentration camps.

Liverpool’s Lord Mayor, Councillor Paul Clark, said: “Holocaust Memorial Day gives us all the opportunity to remember those groups who were persecuted during the Holocaust.

“We know Jews were the primary victims of the racism experienced during this horrendous period, but homosexuals were also targeted along with Roma gypsies and disabled people.

Liverpool.gov.uk