THE FORGOTTEN TRIANGLES

The hidden lives behind the symbols of the nazi camps

Before the number, there was a date of birth. Before the uniform, there were clothes freely chosen. The Forgotten Triangles looks beyond the symbols used in Nazi concentration camps to recover the individual lives they were designed to erase. Through the system of colored triangles and prisoner classifications, the book explores the persecution of political prisoners, Jews, Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, people labeled “asocial,” and many others. More than a study of Nazi classification, it is an investigation into the human beings behind those symbols and a reminder that history must remember people, not merely the categories imposed upon them.