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The tragic love story of gay Jewish couple Manfred Lewin (left) and Gad Beck (right) will be told by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
The true story of Gad Beck and Manfred Lewin, a Jewish gay couple who “resisted through love”, is being highlighted by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
In 1942, when Gad was 19 and Manfred 21, Lewin’s family were classified as Jewish by the Nazis, and were “deported” to “work camps” in the east.
Gad’s father was born Jewish, but his mother converted later, and so he was allowed to remain in Berlin longer because of his ancestry.