LAST CHANCE: HELP Preserve Rare Gay Holocaust Uniform

Help Preserve a Rare Holocaust Artifact Honoring LGBTQ+ Survival

Created by Sandra Scheller, Founder of RUTH: Remember Us The Holocaust

For the past five years, I have curated Holocaust exhibits throughout San Diego County, each designed to educate, honor, and ensure the world never forgets. Through RUTH: Remember Us The Holocaust, we’ve shared stories of resilience, loss, and hope with thousands of students, families, and community members.

Now, I need your help to preserve one of the most rare and powerful artifacts I have ever encountered.

A Chilling, Vital Chapter of History

Recently, I came across an extraordinary artifact:

A concentration camp uniform marked with the pink triangle, the symbol Nazis used to identify and persecute gay men.

A photograph of the survivor who wore it.

A harrowing document in which he volunteers for castration—a devastating choice made under brutal persecution simply because he was gay.

This uniform was the last he wore. This story is one that history has too often buried—but we must not.

Why This Matters

This artifact is more than fabric and paper. It is a powerful symbol of LGBTQ+ survival and resilience. It honors those whose suffering is too often left out of the Holocaust narrative.

Our dream is to preserve and publicly display this artifact in the future permanent home of our Holocaust museum—a space dedicated to truth, inclusion, and remembrance.

We cannot do this alone.

What Your Donation Will Support:

Acquisition and conservation of the artifact

Archival display preparation to preserve it safely for future generations

Museum development efforts to provide a permanent educational home for stories like his

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to honor a castrated legacy and ensure that future generations learn the full truth of what happened—not just to Jews, but to gay men, Romani people, and other persecuted groups.

Help Us Remember Him

Your support will help make this survivor’s story part of the historical record—visible, honored, and never forgotten.

Please donate today. Every gift, no matter the size, brings us closer to our goal.

Let’s ensure that his suffering was not in vain.

Remember Us. Remember Him.

Thank you.........