The Ruth: Remember Us: The Holocaust exhibit has been on display at the La Jolla Library since January. On Sunday, the exhibit’s curator, Sandra Scheller, added a new piece of history: a patch that came from one of the millions of victims of the Holocaust.
The patch was worn by prisoner 20266, a man by the name of Christian Prager, who had an accompanying pink triangle on his uniform. The pink triangle was how the Nazi Party labeled members of the LGBTQ+ community.
The United States Holocaust Museum estimates that Prager was one of the 100,000 people arrested and persecuted during the Holocaust for being homosexual.
“This particular person, Christian Prager who was 12-years-old when he was in the Hitler Youth. By the time he was 16-years-old, he was now imprisoned because of finding himself with his sexuality,” said Scheller…