Karl Gorath

Karl Gorath

Karl Gorath (born 12 December 1912, Bad Zwischenahn, Germany) was a gay man who was arrested in 1938 and imprisoned for homosexuality at Neuengamme and Auschwitz. He was freed in 1945.

Gorath was training for a nursing career when, at 26, he was denounced as a homosexual by his "jealous lover" and arrested under paragraph 175 of the criminal code, which defined homosexuality as an "unnatural act". [ [http://www.petertatchell.net/history/hidden%20from%20history.htm Hidden from history ] ]

Gorath was imprisoned at Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg, and forced to wear a pink triangle, identifying him as gay and a transvestite.

Because of his medical training, Gorath was transferred to work at a prisoner hospital in a sub-camp of Neuengamme, and was subsequently transferred to Auschwitz when he refused to decrease the bread ration for patients who were Poles. At Auschwitz, Gorath wore the red triangle of a political prisoner, which, he believed, spared him the brutality inflicted on inmates identified as gay.

In January 1945, Gorath was freed when the Allies liberated Auschwitz.

Gorath is one of six gay men who are the subject of a documentary on gays in Nazi concentration camps. The film, by producers Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein and narrated by Rupert Everett, is called "Paragraph 175".

ee also

*History of gays during the Holocaust

References

External links

* [http://www.petertatchell.net/history/hidden%20from%20history.htm Hidden from History: The Gay Holocaust]
* [http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/issue/i05-01/paragraph.html Those Who Are Left]


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