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UNCG Jewish Studies Talk “People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire and the Holocaust” with Dr. Anna Hájková
March 26, 2025 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Where are the stories of great queer love in the Shoah? There are almost none.
Anna Hájková explains why the history of same-sex desire in the Shoah, that is, queerness among Jews persecuted by the Nazis for their race, has been excluded and marginalized, and how its return to our understanding of the Holocaust can offer an inclusive and feminist history of this genocide.
Based on original and extensive archival research, her talk offers a concise insight into the queer history of the Holocaust for beginners and advanced alike. This insightful talk is free and open to the public. Trigger Warning: The talk will include discussion of sexualized violence.
About the Speaker: Dr Anna Hájková is Reader of Modern European Continental History at the University of Warwick, UK, and is a 2024-2025 fellow at the University of Michigan Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies. She is the author of The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (2020), among other works. Hájková is a pioneer of queer Holocaust history.
