Gad Beck

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Gerhard 'Gad' Beck

Country

Germany

Birth - Death

1923 - 2012

Occupation

Activist

Description

Holocaust survivor who worked as a resistance fighter in the underground until his identity was betrayed and he was interned. Profiled in the television documentary 'Paragraph 175' (2000). Author of his autobiography 'An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin' (2000). He is believed to have been the last gay holocaust survivor when he died. Full name is Gerhard Beck.

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