“This will be the first and only memorial site in Israel to mention the victims of the Nazis who were persecuted for anything other than being Jewish.”
Later this year, the first monument to gay individuals persecuted by the Nazis in WWII will be constructed in Tel Aviv's Meir Park.
This will be the first and only memorial site in Israel to mention the victims of the Nazis who were persecuted for anything other than being Jewish. As a cosmopolitan city and an international gay center, Tel Aviv will offer a memorial site that is universal in its essence. As far as I'm concerned, it's not a monument, but a place — a place of quiet that will invite visitors to sit, contemplate, reflect and be in solitude [...] One of the first restrictions the Nazis imposed on the Jews was against going to public parks. We're bringing that memory back into the public space. It's very moving.
At the center of the monument will be a concrete triangle, which contains a smaller pink triangle.
The monument will be near the gay community center of Gan Meir. Below you can see a rendering of the memorial by Moria Sekely, Landscape Architecture.
Nazi concentration camps used a badge system, mostly of triangles, to identify the reason prisoners had been placed there.
