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Librarian and author Ken Setterington will be at the Lillian H. Smith Branch tomorrow night, 7 pm, speaking about his book, Branded by the Pink Triangle. The Nazis exterminated some six million Jews, and millions of others, including the disabled, the Roma people, Communists, trade unionists, Social Democrats, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet citizens, and many, many others deemed Untermenschen or "inferior."

Branded by the Pink Triangle is an account of the terrible fate of gay men in Nazi Germany during the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, who died in their tens of thousands in the concentration camps.

After the war, for those who survived the camps continued to suffer. Many were made to serve out the balance of their sentences
if there was still time left in their prison terms! Homosexuality remained illegal in German after the war (under the
notorious Paragraph 175) as it was in Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere. As
late as 1970, in Amsterdam, those who sought to honor the gay men who
had died in the camps were arrested.

Ken Setterington will talk about his research, why he wrote this book and why he wrote it for a young adult audience. Join us at the Lillian Smith Branch tomorrow night to learn more and listen to Ken Setterington tell this important story.