LGBT campaigner and Holocaust survivor Sharley McLean dies aged 90
Tributes are being paid to the radical lesbian feminist and campaigner Sharley McLean, who died at the weekend.
Born Lotte Reyersbach in Germany in 1923, her socialist father and Jewish mother both died in the Holocaust. Sharley fled to Britain as a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany in 1939, in one of the last transports of children allowed to leave Germany before the Nazis closed the borders. Her gay uncle, Kurt Bach, a left-wing activist, was arrested by the Gestapo in a gay bar in Berlin in 1937, and died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
During the war Sharley worked as a nurse at Lewisham hospital. She carried on working in the NHS until she retired, and later became involved with the HIV charity the Terrence Higgins Trust in the 1980s.
Sharley was also a long-time activist in the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CRE).
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/10/28/lgbt-campaigner-and-holocaust-survivor-sharley-mclean-dies-aged-90/
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