Vortrag: Dr Anna Hájková, Queere Liebe im Holocaust – "Menschen ohne Geschichte sind Staub"

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Where are the stories of great queer love in the Shoah? There are almost none. Anna Hájková explains why the history of same-sex love in the Shoah was later excluded and marginalized and how its return to the collective memory can offer an inclusive and feminist history of this genocide. Based on original and extensive archival research, this expanded edition of the classic "People Without History Are Dust" offers a concise insight into queer Holocaust history for beginners and advanced readers.
The English edition of "People Without History Are Dust" recently won the 75th National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category. Anna Hájková, born 1978, is Reader in modern European continental history at the University of Warwick, UK, where she heads the Center for Global Jewish Studies. She is a historian of Jewish Holocaust history and author of "The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt". Hájková is a pioneer in the field of queer Holocaust history. Publications include: The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (forthcoming 2020); Medicine in Theresienstadt, in: Social History of Medicine, 33,1 (2020); Die letzten Berliner Veit Simons: Holocaust, Geschlecht und das Ende des deutsch-jüdischen Bürgertums (co-author, 2019). Awards: Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship 2013.
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