People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust

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).     

Anna will be in conversation with Dr Aviva Dautch. Aviva is the Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK’s quarterly Jewish arts magazine. She has lectured on modern Jewish culture at the University of Roehampton, the London School of Jewish Studies and JW3.  In partnership with Jewish Renaissance