How LGBT victims were erased from Holocaust history

A man lays a white rose at a memorial inaugurated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender victims of the Holocaust on Jan. 10, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Uriel Sinai (Photo: Getty Images)

“We saw barracks surrounded by a double circle of high fences… A torrent of blows awaited us. We were instantly overcome with terror.” With these words in his 1994 memoir, Pierre Seel—one of the few gay Holocaust survivors to publicly…