People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire and the Holocaust
April 8, 2027 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT
Presented in partnership with the Bristol Holocaust and Genocide Center
Join award-winning historian Dr. Anna Hájková for the Baxt Lecture. Based on her National Jewish Book Award-winning book, People Without History Are Dust, Dr. Hájková explores the overlooked history of queer Jews during the Holocaust and demonstrates how recovering these stories broadens our understanding of the Holocaust through inclusive and feminist perspectives.
Content Advisory: This program includes discussion of sexual violence.
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Dr. Anna Hájková is Reader in Modern European Continental History at the University of Warwick and a pioneering scholar of queer Holocaust history. She is the author of The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt and People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust, winner of the 75th National Jewish Book Award.