Template:Did you know nominations/Margot Heumann

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The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 20:43, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Margot Heumann

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• ... that even though Holocaust survivor Margot Heumann told multiple Holocaust archives about her queerness, they kept it hidden? Source: Der Tagesspiegel, in German. Translation of relevant quote: "Why is it not until 2020 that we will hear Margot, the first lesbian voice of a Holocaust survivor? Margot has been interviewed several times for Holocaust archives. The story she told me was actually contained in all of her testimonies in the well-known Holocaust archives - but it was hidden. Dita appeared as the 'best friend'. Nobody questioned why she was so important to Margot."
  • ALT1:... that Margot Heumann is the first woman known to have survived the Nazi concentration camps despite being both Jewish and queer? Source: Der Tagesspiegel, in German. Translation of relevant quote: "Margot's story is the first evidence of a queer woman who survived the concentration camps as a Jew."
  • ALT2:... that Margot Heumann survived the Holocaust, moved to New York, and spent time in the lesbian bars of Greenwich Village? Source: Der Tagesspiegel, in German. Translation of relevant quote: "In the early 1950s, a young, dark-haired, slim woman sometimes visited the lesbian bars in New York's Greenwich Village to accompany the regular Lu Burke. Burke worked for New Yorker magazine, the brunette partner in an advertising agency. The young woman's name was Margot Heumann. She came from war-torn Europe and was recognizable as a Holocaust survivor by a tattoo on her forearm."

• Reviewed: Cal Anderson
• Comment: It'd be fantastic if this could run in June for Pride Month.

Created by Ezlev (talk). Self-nominated at 23:30, 7 June 2021 (UTC).

Interesting life drama, on good sources, offline sources accepted AGF, and I can read the German. No copyvio obvious. I find the lesbian bars a bit too harmless, and prefer ALT1. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:00, 15 June 2021 (UTC)