What is everyday life, and how is it experienced under extreme stress? This is the broader question that animates the research of Anna Hájková, an associate professor of Modern Continental European History at the University of Warwick. In her talk, Hájková examines sex work, sexual violence, and coercion of Jewish women and men in concentration camps, ghettos, and in hiding. She is the author of many journal articles and books, including her current project, “Boundaries of the Narratable: Transgressive Sexuality and the Holocaust.” This pioneering study seeks to contribute to our understanding of gender and sexual violence during the Holocaust and explores the erasure of narratives of gays and lesbians who were deported as Jews and who subsequently vanished from the historical record.

• February 17, 2021

• Hájková, Anna

• UCSD-TV (Television station : La Jolla, Calif.)

With support from the LGBTQIA+ Living and Learning Community at Muir College

• Jalowicz-Simon, Marie
• Kohout, Josef

• Concentration camps
• Hiding
• History
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Homosexuality
• Sexual violence
• Sexuality
• World War, 1939-1945

• text
• video

• English

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