Edited to correct a typo Rudolf and Edi were partners for nearly 60 years, not 30 as originally noted.
Multiple European news sources are reporting that Rudolf Brázda, believed to be the last gay survivor of the Nazi death camps, died in France on Wednesday night. Brázda was 98 and is reported to have died peacefully in his sleep. Although he lived much of his early life in Germany, Brázda was a Czechoslovakian citizen. He was first taken into custody in Germany 1937 and was tried and deported to Czechoslovakia. When Germany later occupied Czechoslovakia he was arrested and charged again, and in 1942 Brázda was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany proper. He remained there until Buchenwald was liberated by allied troops in 1945.
Brázda moved to the Alsace region of France after the war and lived there the remainder of his life - Alsace was noted (or, perhaps, unnoted), at that time for its French Revolution hangover - that is, the decriminalization of homosexuality. Brázda's partner of over 60 years, Edi (pictured with Brázda below), died in 2003, and last April, the French government awarded Brázda the Legion of Honor for his contributions in the recognition for the many thousands of gays who were deported to Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War.
For more on Brázda, including a video interview and a couple of photos, eat through the croissanty-type squiggle. (Just think chocolate croissant).