At the age of 17, Pierre Seel was arrested for homosexuality
and imprisoned in the Schirmeck-Vorbrück concentration camp. After his release, his family forbade him to talk about his experiences. But his mother, at the end of her life, revealed to him a small object–a Mickey Mouse doll surrounded by the garland from her wedding veil–that she had made while he was in the camp that showed Pierre how much his mother had missed him. Learn more about this special object, which Seel donated to the Museum, in this short video.
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