Dr Anna Hájková | What does it mean to study queer Holocaust history and to what end?

Queer Jewish victims in the Holocaust – they must have existed, but they are missing from the historiography. In her lecture, historian Anna Hájková explains how this came about, who these people were and how same-sex love helps us to better understand the history of the Shoah. Using both well-known and new examples such as Anne Frank and Jiří Vrba, Hájková vividly explains what queerness looked like in the Holocaust and how we can find it in the archives.

Dr Anna Hájková is Reader of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick. People Without History Are Dust is her second book and was named by queer.de as one of the most important non-fiction books of 2024. In addition, the book was recently honoured with the 75th National Jewish Book Award.

An event organised by the Fritz Bauer Forum in cooperation with Punktgenau – Forum for Political Education