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Silverfoxesclub-digest
Monday, July 9 2001
Volume 01 : Number 298
In this issue:
-Anne Frank?
-Hello Bob and Harley!: Here's the info on Anne Frank
-Surprising 18th-Century Roots to the 1987 Homomonument!
-More Pics of the Pink Triangles at Amsterdam's Homomonument
-Inscription on the Third Homomonument Triangle
-Re: More Pics of the Pink Triangles at Amsterdam's Homomonument
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From: Robert Feinstein harlynn@panix.com
Subject: Anne Frank?
Dean, could you tell me either on or off list if you've ever been to the
memorial for Ann Frank, and what it was like? Were many Jews killed in
Holland? Wasn't the diary written originally in German and translated by
Eleanor Roosevelt?
Bob and Harley
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From: Dean Hutchinson bvgay@yahoo.de
Subject: Hello Bob and Harley!: Here's the info on Anne Frank you requested
Hello Bob and Harley,
I will try to answer your main questions about Anne Frank here. (She wrote "Kitty" - the
fantasy person she addressed in her diary, in beautiful Dutch prose. Am not sure whether Eleanor
Roosevelt translated them into English.)
The spookiest, most moving and memorable moment when visiting the "Anne Frank Huis" in 1995 was
opening up the bookcase hiding the entrance to the "Secret Annexe" and climbing up the steep
staircase leading to the place where the Frank and Van Daan families were forced to live in hiding
from 1942 until their discovery by the Nazis (the "Green Police") in August of '44. Photos of
early 1940s movie stars that Anne glued to her bedroom wall back then are all still right there
where she put them! An old arched window in the annexe's attic with view of the Westerkerk (West
Church) tower was the only way the two families could look at the sky without risk of discovery by
passers-by out on the street. (The Westerkerk can also be seen together with the Homomonument on
another posting I sent today.) I constantly felt reminded of the Hollywood movie on Anne Frank
from 1959, I think it was.
Reading Anne Frank's diaries in the original Dutch is probably one of the greatest pleasures of
having learned that language years ago. (For some reason I've always felt drawn to the Dutch
people and culture.): "Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven" ["The Back Annexe: Diary Letters"],
Uitgeverij Bert Bakker (publishers), Amsterdam, 1997 --- which contains all her diary entries from
June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944.
Will write more on Anne, especially her lesbian musings in several entries, in one of my next
e-mails. Cannot tell you straight away how many Jews were killed in Holland. Most were deported
to death camps in Poland and other German-occupied areas. Will check out the statistics for you,
though.
Until then, take care, my friend, and give Harley a big hug for me, O.K.? Hugs to you, too!
Dean
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From: Dean Hutchinson bvgay@yahoo.de
Subject: Surprising 18th-Century Roots to the 1987 Homomonument!
Surprising, sodomitical info on the attached pic, in English and Dutch:
 In the foreground, the Homomonument:
Design Karin Daan, 1987. Official opening September 5, 1987. .Commemorates all women and men
ever oppressed and persecuted because of their homosexuality..
In the background, the Westerkerk [.West Church.]:
Time of construction 1620-1631; the architect Hendrick de Keijser died (1n 1621) during the
construction of what is perhaps the most beautiful Protestant Church in the world. On top of the
tower, which was finished in 1638, stands the Imperial Crown. The chimes as well as the organ are
known for their beauty and richness of tone. On December 8, 1669 the great Dutch painter
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) was interred in the church. The exact location of his tomb is not
known. .It becomes clear from [Jacobus Hebelaar.s] confessions and those of Hendrik Eelders [in
the 1730 and 1764 respectively] that sodomites also made contact with each other in . churches;
according to Hebelaar .mainly in the New Church, on long evenings behind the pew.. Eelders talked
about .the old, new Wester, and Amstel churches, in the same fashion in Niewe Sijds Cappel [New
Side Chapel], during the sermons as well as the playing of the organ, and often outside around the
said churches and at the pissoirs mainly of the West Church, not only at the time sermons were
being given but the other evenings as well.. He had once seen a catechist groping another man.s
breeches during a sermon. One Bernard Tornaar, incidentally a braggart and fantast, claimed in
1762 that a man could not keep his hands off him while attending service in the West Church..
[Info source: Theo van der Meer, .Sodoms zaad in Nederland,. p. 244].
- --------The same text in Dutch:
Op de voorgrond, het Homomonument.
Ontwerp Karin Daan, 1987. In gebruik genomen 5 september 1987. .Herdenkt alle vrouwen en mannen
die ooit vanwege hun homoseksualiteit zijn onderdrukt en vervolgd..
Op de achtergrond, de Westerkerk:
Bouwtijd 1620-1631; tijdens de bouw van wellicht de mooiste Protestantse Kerk ter wereld overleed
de bouwmeester Hendrick de Keijser (1621). Boven op de toren, die in 1638 gereed kwam, staat de
Keizerskroon. Zowel het carillon als het orgel zijn bekend door hun schoonheid en klank. Op 8
december 1669 werde de grote Nederlandse schilder Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) in de kerk
begraven. De juiste plaats van zijn graf is niet bekend. .Uit [Jacobus Hebelaars] bekentenissen
en die van Hendrik Eelders [in 1730 resp. 1764] werd duidelijk dat sodomieten ook contacten legden
in ... kerken; volgens Hebelaar .voornamentlyk in die Nieuwe Kerk, in de lange avonden agter de
banken.. Eelders had het over .d.oude, nieuwe Wester, en Amstel kerken, item de Niewe Sijds
Cappel soo onder de predicatien als bij het spelen van het Orgel, ook dikwyls buyten om de
genoemde kerken en aan de pisbakken voornamentlyk van de Westerkerk, niet alleen ten tyde dat.er
gepreekt wert, maar ook op de andere avonden.. Hij had een keer tijdens een preek gezien, hoe en
catechisatiemeester een andere man in de broek tastte. Ene Bernard Tornaar, overigens een
opschepper en een fantast, beweerde in 1762 dat een man zijn handen niet van hem af had kunnen
houden tijdens een dienst in de Westerkerk..
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"My friends, may this knowledge of comrades offer you a security, which will protect you from spiritual impoverishment. And may it be for you a power to strengthen your conviction, amid the anathemas that you, too, will perhaps not escape."--------Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895), in "Prometheus," ("Research on the Riddle of Man-Manly Love") p. 72, Leipzig, Germany, January 1870.
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From: Dean Hutchinson bvgay@yahoo.de
Subject: More Pics of the Pink Triangles at Amsterdam's Homomonument
 "Someone told me that the spot where Dean kneels has never been without flowers since it was
created."
You're right, Doug. We've never seen the Homomonument without any flowers gracing it, and, more
importantly, have never, ever seen it defaced (although my lover and I have always made sure to
stop by there at least once, if not many times, each trip to Holland for the past seven years).
Hugs,
Dean
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From: Dean Hutchinson bvgay@yahoo.de
Subject: Inscription on the Third Homomonument Triangle
 [The following (Dutch) text was taken from Jos Versteegen, "Roze Amsterdam: Een culturele gids"
("Pink Amsterdam: A Cultural Guide"), p. 214, Jos Versteegen & Uitgeverij J.H. Gottmer/H.J.W.
Becht bv(publishers), Bloemendaal, Holland, 1998. English transl. mine. Tried as best I could to
give the poem the same meaning as the Dutch original while simultaneously trying to get it to
rhyme in the same manner.]
"According to [Karin] Daan the third ground-level triangle is comparable to a memorial stone and
symbolizes the Past. A metrical line from Jacob Israkl de Haan [who was a gay Jew], 'Naar
vriendschap zulk een mateloos verlangen' ['Such a boundless longing for friendship'] is inscribed
on this stone. This line of poetry stems from a sonnet by De Haan, published in 1917 in the 'To
[My] Many Friends' section of his "Songs" cluster":
To a Young Fisherman
No roses are as thy cheeks nip'd,
No tulips as thy feet so velv't,
In no eyes afore I e'er beheld,
Such a boundless longing for friendship.
Behind us was the sea's eternity, etc.
The same text in the original Dutch:
"De derde, gelijkvloerse driehoek is volgens [Karin] Daan te vergelijken met een gedenksteen en
symboliseert het Verleden. Op deze steen staat en versregel van Jacob Israkl de Haan, 'Naar
vriendschap zulk een mateloos verlangen.' De regel is afkomstig uit een sonnet van De Haan, in
1917 gepubliceerd in de afdeling 'Aan vele vrienden' van de bundel 'Liederen'":
Aan eenen jongen visscher
Rozen zijn niet zoo schoon als uwe wangen,
Tulpen niet als uwe voeten teer,
En in geen oogen las ik immer meer
Naar vriendschap zulk een mateloos verlangen
Achter ons was de eeuwigheid van de zee,
e.z.v....
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From: George of Boston bostbill@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: More Pics of the Pink Triangles at Amsterdam's Homomonument
Dear Dean and the List,
I had the privilege of attending the original dedication (about 1986) of
the Homomonument in Amsterdam and have a copy of the publication given to
guests, autographed by a speaker at the event. If anyone wants a pic or an
article scanned from that, I can do it gladly.
George of Boston (Boston Bill)
http://bostbill.home.netcom.com
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