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			Sunday, February 2, 2003, 3 p.m.
	Gad Beck a gay Jew who survived in Nazi Berlin, shown in a displaced persons camp in Germany, circa 1945–47. Gad Beck, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #46129		Admission is free for all programs, but reservations are required. Call 202.488.0407. For decades after 1945, the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazi regime remained unnoted, and those who survived the camps continued to face intolerance and discrimination. In this multimedia presentation, Klaus Müller explores how that lack of recognition and ongoing criminalization of homosexuality marked the lives of the men formerly stigmatized by the pink triangle and resulted in a dearth of historical documentation and a gap in knowledge that persists to this day. Recent historical research, film documentaries, and exhibitions have increased public awareness and led to advances in the political and moral recognition of homosexuals as victims of the Nazi regime. Using videos, photographs, and other materials, the lecture explores how these significant changes have affected the few homosexual men who survived the war and are still alive today.
			Klaus Müller is a museum and Web consultant, researcher, and filmmaker. He currently works as a program coordinator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In that capacity, Dr. Müller conducts the Museum’s efforts to collect Holocaust-related materials in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Spain. During the conception of the Museum's permanent exhibition, he researched the persecution of homosexuals under Nazi rule. Dr. Müller was curator of the Museum's first exhibition offered exclusively online, Do You Remember When? In addition, he was the initiator, research director, and associate producer of the award-winning film Paragraph 175, which profiles gay survivors of Nazi persecution; and assistant director of the film But I Was a Girl, which portrays the lesbian resistance fighter and female conductor, Frieda Belinfante. Dr. Müller is also a contributor to various American and international museum journals.
	Three unique public programs relating to the special exhibition		LAVENDER SONGS: WEIMAR CABARET AND BEYOND     COMING INTO FOCUS: FILMMAKERS DEPICT THE EXPERIENCES OF HOMOSEXUAL VICTIMS OF THE NAZI ERA     "SO I STOOD ALONE WITH MY MEMORIES ..." THE MEN WITH THE PINK TRIANGLE, 1945–2003 This program series is made possible by a gift from The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.
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