Saturday 1 June 2019

Darlinghurst, memorial (Theme Day: Pink)

This memorial is located in Green Park, in the inner city suburb of Darlinghurst. The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Holocaust Memorial was designed by Russell Rodrigo and Jennifer Gamble and opened in 2001. In the form of a pink triangle and black poles, it commemorates the gay men and lesbian women who were murdered, tortured or persecuted because of their sexuality, by the Nazis during World War II. The pink triangle was one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, used to identify male prisoners who were sent there because of their homosexuality. Green Park is near the Sydney Jewish Museum and Darlinghurst is considered the heart of Sydney's gay and lesbian population.

15 comments:

  1. I knew this was part of the holocaust but I didn't know about the pink triangles. This part of history is too well hidden.

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  2. thanks for this eye-opener, Jim.
    Never again!

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  3. By reading the text I now understand the color. Normally unusual for a monument.

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  4. The worst of times hopefully never to be repeated. A sobering reminder Jim ✨

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  5. The negative badge image became a symbol of perseverance over evil. - Margy

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  6. Awful times. Knew nothing about these symbols, about the nazis yes. sad.

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  7. I had no idea. Thanks for sharing, Jim. We need to know and remember.

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  8. We are still all discovering parts of the last World War that were atrocities:( Thank you for sharing this one with All Seasons. Didn't know there was a memorial for them -fitting you post it now, close to D-day.

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  9. Never knew that! WOW! thanks for sharing!

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  10. Happy Pink Saturday, Jim. Thank you for joining us to make Pink Saturdays even more special.

    This post is being featured on my Pink Saturday post this week as "the one with the most clicks".

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