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Brenda Fraser, Campaign Associate, and Dr. Klaus Müller stand in front of the Wall of Remembrance at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Scholar to speak on gays under Nazi tyranny

Dr. Klaus Müller, a world-renowned scholar on anti-gay Nazi politics and persecution, is speaking in Cleveland. The lecture is sponsored by Chevrei Tikva, Cleveland's synagogue with an outreach to the lesbian and gay Jewish community. Dr. Müller is a Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Consultant to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Mu-

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The exclusive Cleveland appearance of Professor Müller is at the Hillel Foundation on May 21 at 7 pm. The Hillel Foundation is located at 11291 Euclid Avenue (near CWRU, in the University Circle area). There will be an admission charge of 2 canned goods or a $3 donation. Havdalah, the Jewish ceremony which concludes the Sabbath, will be observed and light refreshments will follow the lecture.

Dr. Müller's lecture will focus on gays under Nazi tyranny. Dr. Müller will also present the remarkable documentary We Were Marked with a Big "A. "This groundbreaking film captures for the very first time, the stories of three gay Holocaust survivors.

Dr. Müller will trace the history of the Holocaust from the end of World War I through Hitler's abuses of power. Starting with the time when both gays and Jews lived in relative tolerance with their neighbors, Dr. Müller will detail the extent of Nazi tyranny when mass arrests and deportation to death camps became the norm. Nazi persecution of both gays and Jews serves as a chilling reminder of how fragile a position it is to be tolerated, but not protected. Dr. Müller will speak not only of the tragic history of gays and lesbians during the Holocaust, but of the horrible consequences we all face encouraging intolerance, hatred and passive silence.

The lecture is part of Chevrei Tikva's year-long Holocaust Educational Symposium. The calendar of events will culminate with a trip to Washington, D.C. to tour the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum spon-

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sored by Chevrei Tikva on October 29-30, 1994. For more information about Dr. Müller or the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum tour, please call Chevrei Tikva at 932-5551.

Funding for this program is through the generous support of Lutherans Concerned, Liberation U.C.C., Gay People's Chronicle, and the Harriet W. Zucker Memorial Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland.

Dr. Müller will also speak at Liberation United Church of Christ at their Sunday morning worship service on Sunday, May 22 at 10:30 am. Services are held at the Hillel Foundation.

'We Were Marked With a Big A'

Due to the ongoing persecution first under the Allied military government in Germany, and later and more systematically under German authorities, we know very little about the gays who were forced to wear pink triangles by Nazis.

In a remarkable documentary film, three gay Holocaust survivors tell their story. Kurt von Ruffin, 90, was denounced by an acquaintance and without any trial, incarcerated for nine months in the Lichtenburg concentration camp. Only the intervention of theater director Heinz Hilpert saved him. FriederichPaul von Groszheim was arrested during police raids on private homes in Luebeck in 1937. Over 230 gay men were arrested that night. He was imprisoned for ten months, released, arrested again and was given the "alternative" treatment of forced castration. Despite this sentence, Groszheim was again rearrested in 1943 and sent to a concentration camp. Finally, Paul Gerhard Vogel tells his story of being forced twice into the Emsland camps and his especially brutal treatment there.

We Were Marked with a Big "A" should be viewed by anyone interested in the Holocaust or gay history.

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