A memorial of our own.Last year a monument to the 6 million Jews Jews [from Judah], traditionally, descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, whose tribe, with that of his half brother Benjamin, made up the kingdom of Judah; historically, members of the worldwide community of adherents to Judaism. who died in the Holocaust Holocaust (hŏl`əkôst', hō`lə–), name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. was inaugurated in Berlin. Now the gay victims of Nazi persecution Persecution Albigenses medieval sect suppressed by a crusade, wars, and the Inquisition. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 53] Camisards uprising of Protestant peasantry after the revocation of Edict of Nantes in 1685 was brutally suppressed by the will be getting a space all their own. A design for a gay memorial has been chosen from 17 proposals, the city government announced on January 26, noting that the federal government had already pledged about a half million dollars to fund its construction. The design by Danish-born Michael Elmgreen and Norwegian native Ingar Dragset features a gray concrete slab Concrete slab A shallow, reinforced-concrete structural member that is very wide compared with depth. Spanning between beams, girders, or columns, slabs are used for floors, roofs, and bridge decks. with a window allowing visitors to view a film projection inside. It echoes the concept of U.S. architect Peter Eisenman's Berlin memorial to Jewish victims, a vast field of more than 2,700 concrete slabs. The Nazis convicted some 50,000 gay men as criminals. An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 gay men were deported to concentration camps, where few survived. |
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