Anna Hájková

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Anna Hájková (born 1978) is a Czech-British historian who is currently a faculty member at the University of Warwick. She specializes in the study of everyday life during the Holocaust and sexuality and the Holocaust.[1] According to Hájková, "My approach to queer Holocaust history shows a more complex, more human, and more real society beyond monsters and saints."[2]

Family

Hájková is the granddaughter of Czech historian Miloš Hájek (1921–2016) and his first wife, Alena Hájková (1924–2012), a historian who specialized in studying Czech Jewish resistance to Nazism. Both were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, and Miloš was a Charter 77 signatory and spokesperson.[3][4] She is Jewish.[2]

Career

From 1998 to 2006, Hájková studied modern history at the

Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Amsterdam. She obtained a master's degree under the supervision of Hartmut Kaelble with a thesis titled "Die Juden aus den Niederlanden im Ghetto Theresienstadt, 1943-1945" (The Jews from the Netherlands in Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943–1945).[5] She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 2013. Her thesis, supervised by Doris Bergen, was titled, "Prisoner Society in the Terezin Ghetto, 1941-1945", regarding the prisoner society in Theresienstadt Ghetto.[6] Her dissertation received the awards Irma-Rosenberg-Preis [de] and Herbert-Steiner-Preis [de].[7][8] In 2013, she published the paper "Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Negotiating the Sexual Economy of the Theresienstadt Ghetto", which received the Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship.[9] According to Michal Frankl, this study uses "a new and inspiring methodological approach".[10] Since 2013, she has been a professor at the University of Warwick.[11]

In 2020, her book The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt was published by

Tablet Magazine, and History Today.[14]

Personal rights case

In April 2020, a German court found that Hájková had violated the personal rights of a deceased Holocaust survivor[2] by concluding from witness testimonies that it was not unlikely the then camp inmate had entertained a relationship with SS guard Anneliese Kohlmann.[15] Whilst Anneliese Kohlmann explicitly stated in her post-war trial she had fallen in love with this particular inmate,[16] recent legal investigations arise from the remaining uncertainties regarding the extent to which the camp inmate might or might not have responded to Kohlmann's affection.[17]

Works

References

  1. ^ "Anna Hájková". The Conversation. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Batty, David (8 October 2020). "Holocaust survivor's daughter in legal battle with historian over claim of lesbian liaison with Nazi guard". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  3. ^ Charter 77 spokesman Miloš Hájek dies at 94, Radia Praha, 26. Februar 2016
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  5. ^ Digitalisiertes Manuskript, pdf zum Download in: Digital Collections, Center for Jewish History[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ Hájková, Anna (November 2013). Prisoner Society in the Terezin Ghetto, 1941-1945 (PhD thesis). University of Toronto.
  7. ^ Verleihung der Irma Rosenberg-Preise 2014, Universität Wien
  8. ^ Herbert-Steiner-Preis 2014, DÖW
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  11. ^ "Dr Anna Hájková". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
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  13. ^ queerpamet.cz academic advisory board
  14. ^ "Articles by Anna Hájková | OUPblog, Haaretz, openDemocracy Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  15. ^ "Daughter of Holocaust survivor sues historian over claim her mother had a lesbian relationship with a Nazi guard". PinkNews. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  16. ^ Hájková, Anna (14 December 2019). "Als sich eine Aufseherin in die Jüdin Helene Sommer verliebte". www.tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  17. ^ "Lecturer taken to court for suggesting late Holocaust survivor had affair with SS camp guard". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
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  20. ^ Review by Jiří Křesťan in Soudobé dějiny (2019) (2/3) https://www.recensio.net/rezensionen/zeitschriften/soudobe-dejiny/2019/2-3/ReviewMonograph68469417 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=804343
  21. ^ Schilde, Kurt (2020). "Redaktion: Anna Hájková/Maria von der Heydt: Die letzten Berliner Veit Simons | Medaon". Medaon (in German).
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  30. ^ "Lawrence L. Langer, review of Anna Hájková's "The Last Ghetto"". George L. Mosse Program in History. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  31. ^ Redaktion, Radio LOTTE. ""Menschen ohne Geschichte sind Staub. Homophobie und Holocaust"". Radio LOTTE Weimar (in German). Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  32. ^ ""Sexualität hat eine Geschichte"". the little queer review (in German). 23 October 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

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