Anna Hájková

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Anna Hájková (born September 27, 1978 in Prague ) is a Czech historian with a focus on twentieth-century European history. She researched and published on the everyday Jewish history of the Holocaust .

Life and research

Anna Hájková is the granddaughter of the Czech historian Miloš Hájek (1921–2016). He was a signatory to Charter 77 and is Righteous Among the Nations . Her grandmother, Alena Hájková (1924–2012), also a historian, did research specifically on Czech Jews in the resistance against National Socialism .

From 1998 to 2006 Anna Hájková studied Modern History with minor subjects English and Sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Amsterdam . With the socio-historical study The Jews from the Netherlands in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943-1945 , she completed her master’s degree with Hartmut Kaelble . She has received several research grants, including the Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellowship of the Holocaust Memorial Museum . and the Leo Baeck Fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation . In the 2006/07 academic year she was a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh . In 2013 she received her PhD from the University of Toronto with a scholarship from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah . Her dissertation The Prisoner Society in Terezín Ghetto, 1941-1945 , in which she examined the everyday life and self-organization of the imprisoned Jews of different nationalities in the Theresienstadt Ghetto , was awarded the Irma Rosenberg Prize for Research into National Socialism and in 2014 the Herbert- Steiner Prize awarded.

Between 2013 and 2018 she held a junior professorship for European Modern History at the University of Warwick , and has been an associate professor there since 2018 . In 2015/16, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , she was a visiting scholar at the Department of History at the University of Erfurt to conduct research on the development of socialism in Central Europe between 1930 and 1970 for her project Dreamers of a New Day . She also researches the queer history of the Holocaust, for example Fredy Hirsch . She is also committed to commemorating women who were persecuted as lesbians under National Socialism . She is writing a book about the Neuengammer guard Anneliese Kohlmann , who entered into a forced relationship with a prisoner woman; Here she will also report on the prison functionary in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Willy Brachmann , whom she nominated as Righteous Among the Nations because of his support for fellow inmates at Yad Vashem . She is involved in the Marie Schmolka Society, which campaigns for the recognition of female social workers in the Holocaust.

From 2006 to 2009 Anna Hájková was co-editor of the yearbooks of Theresienstadt Studies and Documents . She is the chair of the scientific advisory board of the Czech society Společnost pro queer paměť (Society for Queer Memory) and is an associate member of the Center for Holocaust Studies and Jewish Literature at Charles University in Prague .

Awards

Fonts (in German)

  • The Westerbork Police Transit Camp . In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (Ed.): Terror in the West. National Socialist camps in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg 1940–1945 , Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-936411-53-9 , pp. 217–248
  • Structures of female behavior in Theresienstadt . In: Gisela Bock (Ed.): Genocide and Gender. Jewish women in the National Socialist camp system . Campus publishing house, Frankfurt a. M., New York 2005, ISBN 3-593-37730-6 , pp. 202-220
  • The fabulous guys from Theresienstadt. Young Czech men as the dominant social elite in the Theresienstadt ghetto . In: Christoph Dieckmann , Babette Quinkert (Ed.): In the Ghetto 1939 - 1945. New research on everyday life and the environment . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0510-6 , pp. 116-135
  • The Jewish elder and his SS men. Benjamin Murmelstein and his relationship with Adolf Eichmann and Karl Rahm . In: Ronny Loewy , Katharina Rauschenberger (Ed.): "The Last of the Unjust". The "Jewish Elder" Benjamin Murmelstein in films 1942-1975. Campus publishing house, Frankfurt a. M., New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39491-6 , pp. 75-101
  • Everyday life in the Holocaust. Jewish life in the Greater German Reich 1941-1945 . Ed. Together with Doris Bergen, Andrea Löw, Oldenbourg Verlag (= series of quarterly journals for contemporary history, volume 106), Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-70948-3
  • Older German Jews in the Theresienstadt ghetto . In: Beate Meyer (Ed.): German Jews in Ghettos and Camps (1941-1945): Łodź, Chełmno, Minsk, Riga, Auschwitz, Theresienstadt , Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-314- 2 , pp. 201-221
  • Telling the Holocaust queer , in: Yearbook Sexualities 2018, ed. on behalf of the Queer Nations initiative by Janin Afken u. a., Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-83534-307-8 , pp. 86-110
  • Young, gay - and murdered by the Nazis. In: Der Tagesspiegel Online. August 31, 2018, ISSN 1865-2263 (tagesspiegel.de [accessed September 16, 2018]).
  • Queer History and the Holocaust , From Politics and Contemporary History , Vol. 68, No. 38/39 2018, pp. 42–47.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charter 77 spokesman Miloš Hájek dies at 94 , Radia Praha, February 26, 2016
  2. ^ "The autobiography The Memory of the Czech Left , written by my own grandfather — the resistance fighter, historian of the Third International, and dissident Miloš Hájek — is full of important men in his life: František Kriegel, Václav Havel, Jan Křen . But his first wife, my grandmother, Alena Hájková, who was with him in the resistance, an eminent historian herself — to this day the expert of the Czech Jews in the resistance — is mentioned only in passing. ” In: Anna Hájková: Israeli Historian Otto Dov Kulka Tells Auschwitz Story of a Czech Family That Never Existed , Tablet Magazine, October 30, 2014
  3. ^ Digitized manuscript, pdf for download in: Digital Collections, Center for Jewish History
  4. ↑ Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellow Ms. Anna Hájková , United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  5. ^ University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events, April 12-18 | University of Pittsburgh News. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Awarding of the Irma Rosenberg Prizes 2014, University of Vienna
  7. ↑ Herbert Steiner Prize 2014, DÖW
  8. ↑ Dr. Anna Hajkova, Humboldt Foundation
  9. ↑ Young, gay - and murdered by the Nazis . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . August 31, 2018, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed September 16, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Sexuality in the concentration camp - facets of a forced relationship with women. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Jan Sternberg: The forgotten victims of the Holocaust on www.landeszeitung.de from January 20, 2020
  12. ↑ About Us. In: Marie Schmolka Society. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  13. ↑ CENTRUM QUEER PAMĚTI
  14. ↑ Anna Hájková wins 2013 Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship , H-Soz-Kult, April 5, 2013
  15. ^ Anna Hájková Wins Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship , University of Chicago Press
personal data
SURNAME Hájková, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague