What an amazing woman. And Willem Arondeus--his story was both inspiring and heartbreaking.
Thank you for sharing this deeply moving story. I will never forget these courageous people.
This paragraph caught my eye, for what I think will be obvious reasons (bolding added by me):
"The Nazis made it clear that sexual and gender nonconformity really would have no place in the new Germany that they were trying to establish. And I think it's really important to understand that Nazi leaders believed that the alleged “deviance” of same-sex desire and same-sex identities was a “vice”— it was a “choice” that anyone could be tempted into, which is also why they thought that it was so dangerous."
When I read this, I thought, good lord, how is it that so many people STILL believe this, all these decades later? The comparison between Nazi attitudes described here and the upsurge in persecution of LGBTQ people in this country in the freaking 21st century is very striking to me and deeply, deeply disturbing. 
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