Pink Triangles: The last known survivor tells his story
97 year-old Rudolf Brazda is probably the last surviving man to have been deported by the Nazis for being a homosexual.
97 year-old Rudolf Brazda is probably the last surviving man to have been deported by the Nazis for being a homosexual. In a video interview for Yagg he remembers his years as a prisoner at the Buchenwald concentration camp. He had previously given his precise and moving testimony to Jean-Luc Schwab, of the French organization Les « Oublié(e)s » de la Mémoire (Forgotten from Memory), who turned it into a fascinating book : Itinéraire d’un Triangle rose (Itinerary of a Pink triangle). The son of Czechoslovakian immigrants in Germany, Rudolf Brazda was 20 when Hitler rose to power. He had lived his homosexuality freely and openly until the law penalizing homosexuality, the notorious « Paragraph 175 », was toughened by the Nazi regime. On August 8, 1942, after having gone to prison twice, he was sent to the concentration camp of Buchenwald, where he was given the number 7952, and a pink triangle. Even though Buchenwald…
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