Name: Voices from the Shadows—LGBTQ+ Experiences During the Nazi Era
Start: 2025-10-29T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-29T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Rodef Shalom Congregation

$Voices from the Shadows\u2014LGBTQ+ Experiences During the Nazi Era$

Join us for a presentation by Eric Marcus on the experiences of LGBTQ+ people during the rise of the Nazi regime, WWII, and the Holocaust.
About this Event

Eric Marcus introduces Making Gay History’s podcast series on the experiences of LGBTQ+ people during the rise of the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust. Drawing on extensive research conducted for this first-of-its-kind audio documentary, Eric shares archival clips during a 45-minute presentation (+ 15-minute Q&A) that brings this painful, often hidden history to life through the voices of the people who lived it.

Please note, this event will not be livestreamed or recorded.

About Eric:

Journalist and author Eric Marcus is the founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast, which brings LGBTQ+ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it. Eric is also executive director of the Making Gay History educational non-profit organization, which works in partnership with the National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the United States, to provide LGBTQ+-inclusive American history lessons to middle and high school educators. In addition, Eric is co-producer of Those Who Were There, a podcast drawn from Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Eric is the author and co-author of a dozen books, including the #1 NY Times bestselling autobiography of Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, and he was a founding board member of the American LGBTQ+ Museum. (For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Marcus.)