Global InformationLiddy Bacroff information
Liddy Bacroff | |
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| Born | 19 August 1908 Ludwigshafen, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire |
| Died | 6 January 1943 (aged 34) Mauthausen concentration camp |
| Nationality | German |
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| Known for | Trans sex work in Berlin and Hamburg. Murdered by the Nazis |
Liddy Bacroff (19 August 1908 – 6 January 1943) was a performer and sex worker of Weimar Republic era, persecuted and killed by the Nazi regime during World War II. Bacroff rejected her male gender role assigned at birth and self-identified as a "transvestite". Bacroff was imprisoned several times for "homosexual acts" under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code and ultimately killed in the Mauthausen concentration camp.