Lecture, Barnard's Inn Hall, Monday, 28 Sep 2026 - 18:00

Where is Queer Love in the Shoah History?

A colourful, hand-drawn caricature of a man playing an accordion is superimposed at an angle over a black-and-white background of a barbed-wire fence

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 marginalised, 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, this lecture offers a concise insight into the queer history of the Holocaust.

Dr Anna Hájková

Dr Anna Hájková

Dr Anna Hájková is Reader for modern European continental history at the University of Warwick, where she co-directs the Centre for Global Jewish Studies. 

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