Author Anna Hájková discusses People Without History Are Dust and the often-overlooked place of queerness in Holocaust history.
Drawing on rich archival research, the book brings forward the stories of Jewish victims and survivors from across Germany, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and Poland who were doubly marginalised, persecuted both as Jews and as queer individuals. Together, the conversation reflects on silence, survival, and memory, and why telling these stories matters today.
Dr Anna Hájková is Reader of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of, among others, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (2020) and People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust (2025).