Enemies of the State: The Nazi Persecution of LGBTQ+ People
Tue, Sep 16
|Keene State College (Mabel Brown Room)
2025 Holocaust Memorial Lecture at Keene State College
Time & Location
Sep 16, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Keene State College (Mabel Brown Room), 229 Main St, Keene, NH 03431, USA
About the event
The Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will host award winning historian Dr. Jake Desai-Newsome as the 2025 Holocaust Memorial Lecturer. In his talk, which is entitled "Enemies of the State: The Nazi Persecution of LGBTQ+ People," Dr. Desai-Newsome will use archival material and survivor testimonies to tell the stories of LGBTQ+ people in Nazi Germany. Attendees will learn about the complex motivations that convinced Nazi leaders that combating homosexuality was vital to the success of the Third Reich. The result was the destruction of the vibrant LGBTQ+ communities that had emerged during Germany’s democratic years, and the targeting, torture, and murder of tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ Germans. And while the Holocaust ended in May 1945, LGBTQ+ survivors soon learned that the era of state sanctioned persecution was not over.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Jake Desai-Newsome is an award winning scholar of German and American LGBTQ+ history whose research…