Tel Aviv on Tuesday inaugurated Israel's first memorial dedicated to the thousands of men and women who were persecuted by the Nazis for their sexual orientation.

According to Tel Aviv daily Haaretz, the memorial is located in Meir Park and is steeped in the imagery used by the Nazi Party to persecute gays: pink triangles.

“One is concrete, and on it appears an explanation of the persecution of homosexuals during the Holocaust,” the paper wrote. “The second, which is painted on a concrete triangle, is an upside-down triangle painted pink, of the type the Nazis forced homosexuals to wear. The third triangle faces the other two and consists of three pink benches.”

“In memory of those persecuted by the Nazi regime for their sexual orientation and gender identity,” a marker reads in Hebrew, English and German.

An estimated 15,000 such people were sent to concentration camps, where more than half perished. Nazi officials also carried out medical experiments aimed at altering a person's sexuality from gay to straight.

Similar monuments can be found in Berlin, Amsterdam, Sydney and San Francisco, the paper reported.