Cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German & European Studies, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, the Human Rights Program, Institute for Global Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of German Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, Department of History, Department of Sociology, JPride, Quatrefoil Library, Queermunity, and Shir Tikvah 

About the Talk: Where are the stories of great queer love in the Shoah? There are almost none. In her new book, People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust (newly translated into English and published by the University of Toronto Press), 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, Hájková offers a concise insight into the queer history of the Holocaust for beginners and advanced alike.

About the Speaker: Dr Anna Hájková is Reader of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick, UK, and the pioneer of queer Holocaust history. She is the author of, among others, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (Oxford University Press, 2020) and People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust (University of Toronto Press, 2025).