Often
we think of French onion as being the beefy variety. Here is a
chicken version of this favorite taste. We dedicate this to a brave
survivor of the NAZI Holocaust.
One of the untold number who were forced to wear the pink triangle of
homosexuality. This group is often overlooked, yet suffered
unbelievably. More, when the camps were liberated, were forced to
stay in prison (since they were “real” criminals).
Here
we offer a creamy onion sauce for our chicken and pasta.
Ingredients
2
TBS olive oil, divided
2
TBS butter, divided
1
pound chicken thighs cut into pieces
½
teaspoon salt, divided
½
teaspoon ground pepper, divided
1
large yellow onion (1 pound), halved and thinly sliced
1
small can mushroom bits & pieces, drained
2
tablespoons all-purpose flour
1
cup low-sodium chicken broth
½
cup half & half
2
teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
Chopped
parsley for garnish
Egg
noodles
Directions:
Slice
the onion in thin slices carefully with a mandolin slicer. Cut up the
chicken thighs into 1 inch pieces and roll in ¼ cup flour with
paprika mixed in.
Heat
1 TBS oil and 1 TBS of butter in a large skillet over medium heat.
Spread out the onion in the hot oil and sprinkle with thyme and
pinches of salt & pepper to taste. Saute this for 15
mins or
until browned and limp.
Add
the chicken pieces and cook until browned. Remove to plate.
Pour
in the chicken broth and scrape up any bits on the bottom of pan.
In
a small bowl mix the half & half with 2 Tbs of flour into a
slurry. Stir into the skillet. Add the pasta and stir to make sure
each piece is coated well.
This
is important to make sure it all cooks.
Stir
in the mushrooms, and peas.
Lay
the chicken pieces on this bed in skillet and cover. Let simmer for
at least 20
mins,
stirring occasionally until the pasta is cooked.
Serve
sprinkled with parsley and Parmesan cheese if desired.
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Rudolf Brazda
Rudolf
was born 1913 to parents
originating in Bohemia. The family had emigrated to Saxony to earn a
living. After World War I, he became a Czechoslovak citizen, owing to
his parents' origins in that newly established country.
In
the early 1930s, prior to the Nazis' accession to power, he was able
to live his sexuality openly, thanks to relative tolerance in the
last days of the Weimar Republic. In the summer of 1933, he met
Werner, his first companion. Together they shared a sublease in the
house of a Jehovah's Witness landlady, who was fully aware and
tolerant of the bond existing between them. In the following two
years, despite the Nazi accession to power and the subsequent
reinforcement of Paragraph 175, they led a happy life, befriending
other male homosexuals.
As
of 1935, the Nazis extension of legal provisions criminalizing
homosexuality generated a dramatic increase of lawsuits against
homosexuals. Thus, in 1937, following police investigations into the
lives of his gay friends, Brazda was suspected and remanded in
custody. In Altenburg, he was eventually tried and sentenced to six
months in prison for breaching the terms of Paragraph 175. Werner was
tried and sentenced elsewhere and circumstances led to them losing
sight of each other in the ensuing months. Werner is rumored to have
died in 1940 while on military duty on the French front, in the
battles raging against Britain.
Having
served his sentence, Brazda was soon to be expelled from Germany in
October 1937. In April 1941, he was imprisoned again on suspicion of
homosexual activities, and later charged by a court in the town of
Eger in the Czech Republic, following a new trial. In June 1942,
instead of being released at the end of his second prison term, he
was remanded in "Schutzhaft", or protective custody, the
first measure leading to his deportation to a KZ
(Konzentrationslager).
Brazda
was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp on 8 August 1942
and remained there until its liberation, on April 11, 1945. He was
prisoner number 7952 and started with forced labor at the stone
quarry, prior to being posted to the quarry's infirmary. Several
months later, he joined the roofers unit, part of the "Bauhof"
kommando, in charge of maintaining the numerous buildings that
constituted the camp. On many occasions, Brazda saw first hand the
Nazi cruelty towards homosexuals as well as other detainees, aware it
was not uncommon for sick or disabled prisoners to be executed by
lethal injection at the sick bay.
With
the help of a kapo who hid him in the early days of April 1945,
shortly before the camp's evacuation, Brazda was able to avoid being
sent away with thousands of prisoners. These forced evacuation
measures turned into death marches for nearly half of them, who were
shot on the spot if they were too weak to sustain the pace.
Within
the roofers' kommando, Brazda had been able to make friends with
other deportees, mostly communists, and in particular with Fernand, a
Frenchman from the Alsace province. After finally being released from the camp,
instead of returning to his place of birth, Brazda decided to follow
the Frenchman to the latter's home country. In May 1945, both
eventually arrived in Mulhouse, shortly after VE Day.
In
the early 1950s,
at a costume ball, Brazda met Edouard
"Edi" Mayer,
who became his life companion. In the early 1960s, they moved into a
house they built in the suburbs of Mulhouse, where Brazda resided
until not long before his death. He tended to Edi for over 30 years
after Edi was crippled by a severe work accident, until his death in
2003.
In
2008, he heard of the impending unveiling of a memorial to homosexual
victims of Nazism in Berlin, he decided to make himself known.
Eventually, an invitation was extended to him to attend a ceremony on
the morning of the Berlin CSD gay pride march. Brazda was then
invited to attend a number of gay events, including Europride Zurich
in 2009 and some smaller scaled events in France, Switzerland and
Germany.
In
2010, Rudolf Brazda took part in Mulhouse in the unveiling of a
plaque in memory of Pierre Seel and others who were deported because
of their homosexuality and was a guest of honor at a remembrance
ceremony at Buchenwald.
Brazda
was symbolically present on the site of the former
Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp on the occasion of a plaque
unveiling ceremony. The plaque reads, "In Memory of the Victims
of Nazi Barbarity, Deported Because of Their Homosexuality."
Brazda
was determined to continue speaking out about his past, in the hope
that younger generations remain vigilant in the face of present-day behavior and thought patterns similar to those which led to the
persecutions endured by homosexuals during the Nazi era. He received
the gold medals of the cities of Toulouse and Nancy in recognition of
his commitment to bear witness locally and nationally in France.
In
recognition of his numerous contributions to public debates, media
interviews and research articles, nationally and internationally, not
least his involvement in a citizens group promoting awareness of
homosexual deportation in France, Brazda was appointed Knight in the
National order of the Legion of Honour, in the 2011 Easter honors
list. He received his Knight insignia four days later from Marie-José
Chombart de Lauwe, president of the French Foundation for the
Remembrance of Deportation, in Puteaux (the city whose gold medal he
also received on that occasion).
Brazda
supported research work by the French citizens group Les
« Oublié(e)s » de la Mémoire who made him an honorary
member on 3 October 2008.
His
original biography, Itinéraire d'un Triangle rose (A
Pink Triangle's life journey;
currently available in French, Portuguese, Spanish and Czech) is the
only book he personally verified and authorized. It is the testimony
of the likely last survivor of those men who were marked by a pink
triangle and shows how Nazi repression of homosexuality directly
impacted his life path. For the first time a book discloses the
details of minute police investigations led to convict him and other
homosexuals who had come under scrutiny. It also deals with issues
such as human sexuality in concentration camps.
A
longer, more scholarly German-language biography of Brazda was
published later: "Das Glück kam immer zu mir": Rudolf
Brazda—Das Überleben eines Homosexuellen im Dritten Reich by
Alexander Zinn (Campus Verlag, 2011). The book is currently available
in German only.
Brazda
died on 3 August 2011, at the age of 98, at Les Molènes, an assisted
living facility in northeastern France. Brazda's funeral was held on
8 August 2011 in Mulhouse, France. After a remembrance service
attended by approximately 40 people, his body was cremated, and his
ashes interred alongside those of his late partner Edouard Mayer, in
the Cemetery of Mulhouse.
Immediately
following Rudolf Brazda's death, numerous organizations and officials
in France paid tribute to his memory.
Obituaries
of Rudolf Brazda appeared in publications and on websites worldwide.
English-language obituaries published by the Associated Press; Czech
Position (Prague); the Los Angeles Times; The New York Times; RFI
(France); The Telegraph; The Independent (London); UPI (United
States); and numerous other media outlets.
In
September 2011, a national tribute ceremony to Rudolf was organized
by Les « Oublié(e)s » de la Mémoire. It was held at
Saint-Roch's Church, Paris, which houses a memorial chapel to victims
of Deportation. Officials, diplomacy representatives, as well as
militants and association representatives were in attendance. In the
last three years of his life, Rudolf had become a unique witness, and
remembering homosexual deportation today remains essential in the
struggle against discrimination.
In a statement, Mémorial de
la Déportation Homosexuelle, a French organization that commemorates
the Nazi persecution of gay people, said that Mr. Brazda “was very
likely the last victim and the last witness” to the persecution.
It will now be the task of
all LGBT's to keep this memory alive,
