Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 16:59:08 -0400 (EDT) From: A Jay Eddy April 14, 1996 Release Broward Log Cabin Club of Florida P.O. Box 1281, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33302 (305) 563-3626 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * YOM HASHOAH: LOG CABIN BROWARD APPLAUDS RABBI ON REMEMBERING GAYS Yom Hashoah is a day of remembrance for six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. But, this year, Rabbi Dennis L. Eger of West Hollywood, California will open hearts and minds to the hidden victims of the Nazi death camps. In a commemorative services at the Santa Monica Blvd. Babi Yor memorial the pink triangle, worn by gays in the death camps, will not be hidden by those historical revisionists who would have you believe that places like Auschwitz never existed. Jerry Rosethal knew that in Dr. Josef Mengele's death camp being gay, handicapped or a gypsy meant immediate death. He lied and survived as a slave laborer of Auschwitz. Today Debbie Elainson and Dr. Kalus Miller of the Washington D.C. Holocaust museum have traced about 15 gay survivors who are still alive but, according to recent German gay activists accounts, were never compensated for the crimes committed against them and humanity. Eliason and others don't want these hidden "Paragraph 175" victims forgotten. Unfortunately her efforts are $500,000 short of a fundraising goal to remember them and all those who never deserved what was fostered upon because of bigotry and hate. As memorial services are held throughout this country and in South Florida this week gay women and men must also remember that although a hidden minority they, too, suffered, were scapegoats and died because of who and what they were as "Children of God." They must not forget, they must not give up their faith or allow anyone take it from them and they must never allow anyone to deprive them of the rights they deserve as citizens under the Constitution of this great nation.