Monday, July 12, 2021

Gay Pride: Kitty Fischer on Gay Male Rescuer in Auschwitz

Jun 18, 2015 • For National Gay Pride Month, USC Shoah Foundation featuried a testimony clip every week in June of eyewitnesses to the Nazi persecution of gay men in the Holocaust. Kitty Fischer recounts her time in Auschwitz-II Birkenau when, as a young girl, she encountered for the first time a gay male prisoner who turned out to save her life. To learn more and explore the stories of other eyewitnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides, visit sfi.usc.edu | Copyright USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education.



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