NEWS.- Today, January 27, the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust and the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity. It was a January 27 1945 when Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp, where several million people were killed. killed for being Jews, gypsies, disabled people, homosexuals or for their political ideology. In this way the existence of the Nazi extermination camps was put an end and for that reason since then this date is considered as the day of the end of the Holocaust.
Despite not having an exact figure, it is estimated that the order from 5.000 to 15.000 homosexuals were interned in concentration camps. Their identification symbol, which distinguished them from the rest of the prisoners, was a pink triangle that they had sewn to their suit and which has since become a symbol of the struggle of the international homosexual movement. It should be borne in mind that homosexuals occupied the lower ranks of the system in detention camps, which meant that they were treated cruelly by SS guards and other prisoners.
The last 23 of January, the Jewish Community of Madrid and the Assembly of Madrid, they celebrated a tribute ceremony in which the Collective LGBT of the Community of Madrid, COLEGA- MADRID, was invited one more year to light one of the candles in memory of the non-Jewish victims who were killed during the holocaust.
Samir Bargachi, president of COLEGA, He said: "For COLEGA-MADRID, the celebration of this day is of special importance since it highlights the hatred and harassment that minorities suffer in totalitarian regimes. We can not stop forgetting gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals who are currently being persecuted in many parts of the world, deprived of liberty, assaulted, insulted, when not executed and killed. The recent cruel and brutal assassinations of homosexuals by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, throwing them out of buildings and then finishing them off with stones, reminds us that we must not lower our guard in demanding respect for human rights in all parts of the world. world. Together we can make the bleeding of LGBT cease to be a harsh reality to become a memory and commemoration. "
From Gayles.tv, we sympathize with this tribute and we light a symbolic candle in memory of the victims of the holocaust Nazi and all subsequent holocausts. I hope the future will not bring us more atrocities of this caliber anywhere in the world.
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