Dr Uta Rautenberg
@utarautenberg.bsky.social
Holocaust, Jewish, gender and queer History, genocide, feminism. Writing about ‘Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps’. Educator and senior leader at secondary level in England. My views are my own.
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In happy news, the Manuscript Review Committee of the University of Toronto Press has approved my book manuscript on homophobia in Nazi camps in 2026! I am delighted and thankful @ankahajkova.bsky.social @cmick21.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
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In her new book, People Without History are Dust, Dr Anna Hájková explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors.
Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:
Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:
Book Talk: People without History are Dust, Anna Hájková - The Wiener Holocaust Library
The Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership is delighted to host Dr Anna Hájková in conversation with Dr Christine Schmidt about Dr. Hájková’s new book, People without History are Dust: Queer…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In her new book, People Without History are Dust, Dr Anna Hájková explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors.
Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:
Sign up now to hear Dr Hájková speak about this important new work:
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On 10 December 2025, the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP) @hgrporg.bsky.social will be hosting two events with Dr Anna Hájková on her latest book, 'People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust'.
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
On 10 December 2025, the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP) @hgrporg.bsky.social will be hosting two events with Dr Anna Hájková on her latest book, 'People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust'.
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My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
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October 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My next book has a cover! I Will Not Abandon You is a new history of queer women under Nazism that calls for us to rethink how we understand fascist persecution as well as the very foundations of progressive politics today. You can preorder it anywhere you buy books
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
bookshop.org/p/books/i-wi...
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I will discuss my new book with @schuneke.bsky.social on 9 December online in the IHR history of sexuality seminar (together with History of Germany seminar), online
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire and the Holocaust
www.history.ac.uk
October 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I will discuss my new book with @schuneke.bsky.social on 9 December online in the IHR history of sexuality seminar (together with History of Germany seminar), online
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog!
Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
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Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
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A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center
A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access
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September 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog!
Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
Learn more about this exciting change on the blog:
katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...
If you have received a direct message from me for a voting request, please ignore. I did not send this and have asked Bluesky to investigate
August 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
If you have received a direct message from me for a voting request, please ignore. I did not send this and have asked Bluesky to investigate
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Come to the launch of the Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Huge thanks to the editors for a Herculean effort. Includes chapter by me on the first Frankfurt Trial and by my former PhD student Marianne Zwicker on Romani testimonies,plus all sorts of excellent folk eg @ankahajkova.bsky.social
Virtual Book Launch:
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Tuesday, September 16, 11 AM ET/4 PM BT
Register Here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Tuesday, September 16, 11 AM ET/4 PM BT
Register Here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Come to the launch of the Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Huge thanks to the editors for a Herculean effort. Includes chapter by me on the first Frankfurt Trial and by my former PhD student Marianne Zwicker on Romani testimonies,plus all sorts of excellent folk eg @ankahajkova.bsky.social
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Thinking of Suleika Aldini on this European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma, which commemorates the 500,000 men, women, and children who were imprisoned, tortured, and killed leading up to and during the Second World War. /1
August 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Thinking of Suleika Aldini on this European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma, which commemorates the 500,000 men, women, and children who were imprisoned, tortured, and killed leading up to and during the Second World War. /1
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Three more months until People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust comes out @uoftpress.bsky.social and translated @williamrossjones.bsky.social
you can preorder below.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
you can preorder below.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
July 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Three more months until People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust comes out @uoftpress.bsky.social and translated @williamrossjones.bsky.social
you can preorder below.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
you can preorder below.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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Yesterday I had a great lunch with @history-doug.bsky.social whose highly readable book I read recently. "Urning" is a very readable and important contribution to 19th century German history and the emergence of modern queer identity.
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Urning - University of Toronto Press
Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century
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July 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yesterday I had a great lunch with @history-doug.bsky.social whose highly readable book I read recently. "Urning" is a very readable and important contribution to 19th century German history and the emergence of modern queer identity.
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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Auf Tschechisch (und Deutsch) in ORF.
Im April hat Anna Hájková ihr Buch „Menschen ohne Geschichte sind Staub. Queeres Verlangen im Holocaust“ im DÖW präsentiert. Auszüge von der Veranstaltung und ein Interview mit der Historikerin wurden nun in ORF-Beiträgen gesendet.
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Historička Anna Hájková| „Číst holocaust queer perspektivou“
Historička Anna Hájková v rámci své badatelské práce nepátrá primárně po zmínkách o queer identitě obětech holocaustu, ale o jejich queer chování. Odkrývá jak příběhy sexuálního násilí, tak i romanti...
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July 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Auf Tschechisch (und Deutsch) in ORF.
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Die Doku, die die BBC nicht senden durfte.
Wäre Pflichtprogramm für jeden, die/der über Gaza spricht.
Man müsste dafür noch nicht einmal einen Artikel lesen.
Nach 20 Monaten Genozid-Verharmlosung wäre das im Grunde das Minimum für Journalist:innen.
Passiert natürlich nicht.
Wäre Pflichtprogramm für jeden, die/der über Gaza spricht.
Man müsste dafür noch nicht einmal einen Artikel lesen.
Nach 20 Monaten Genozid-Verharmlosung wäre das im Grunde das Minimum für Journalist:innen.
Passiert natürlich nicht.
🚨🚨 Für alle, die wegen der Doku und eines Links geschrieben haben: Die Doku ist jetzt auch auf YouTube zu sehen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dc2...
Zur Erinnerung: Die Doku wurde FÜR DIE BBC gemacht. Diese hat sich dann aber geweigert, sie auszustrahlen.
Zur Erinnerung: Die Doku wurde FÜR DIE BBC gemacht. Diese hat sich dann aber geweigert, sie auszustrahlen.
Die BBC hat sich geweigert, diese Doku über israelische Black Sites auszustrahlen. Meine Kollegin Budour hat zur Vorgehensweise in den Black Sites und zum Umgang mit den Gefangenen dort recherchiert.
July 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Die Doku, die die BBC nicht senden durfte.
Wäre Pflichtprogramm für jeden, die/der über Gaza spricht.
Man müsste dafür noch nicht einmal einen Artikel lesen.
Nach 20 Monaten Genozid-Verharmlosung wäre das im Grunde das Minimum für Journalist:innen.
Passiert natürlich nicht.
Wäre Pflichtprogramm für jeden, die/der über Gaza spricht.
Man müsste dafür noch nicht einmal einen Artikel lesen.
Nach 20 Monaten Genozid-Verharmlosung wäre das im Grunde das Minimum für Journalist:innen.
Passiert natürlich nicht.
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"Beneath the streetlights, a patrol car parks up at the gates of the cemetery in Potočari. On 11 July 1995, the village set the scene for what was to be the largest mass killing in Europe since the second world war." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Thirty years after the genocide, the peace of Srebrenica hides deep scars | Alixandra Fazzina
Today, the landscape looks picturesque – but it holds memories of the largest mass killing since the second world war. A photojournalist meets some of the Bosnian Muslim survivors building new lives a...
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July 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Beneath the streetlights, a patrol car parks up at the gates of the cemetery in Potočari. On 11 July 1995, the village set the scene for what was to be the largest mass killing in Europe since the second world war." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
newfascismsyllabus.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
newfascismsyllabus.com
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📣 New Academic Book Talk just listed!
Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.
Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B
Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.
Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B
June 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
📣 New Academic Book Talk just listed!
Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.
Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B
Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger.
Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B
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It is out! @jonahgarde.bsky.social's magnificent and field-defining book. A good way to support this fab project and amazing scholar is to acquire the book for your personal or institutional library. You'll notice it is also available open access.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
June 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
It is out! @jonahgarde.bsky.social's magnificent and field-defining book. A good way to support this fab project and amazing scholar is to acquire the book for your personal or institutional library. You'll notice it is also available open access.
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
One week to go! Eine Woche noch! 🌈 Kommt alle, Universität Bremen, 2.7.! Ich freue mich @lisamirabai.bsky.social
Bremen! Wer sich für die Geschichte von Homophobie und queerem Verlangen in den NS-Lagern interessiert, sollte den Vortrag von @utarautenberg.bsky.social am 02.07. in unserem Forschungskolloquium (18:15-19:45) nicht verpassen. Ich bin schon sehr gespannt darauf! 🌈
www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...
Super excited about this! @lisamirabai.bsky.social Kommt alle am 2.7. Universität Bremen
Super excited about this! @lisamirabai.bsky.social Kommt alle am 2.7. Universität Bremen
June 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
One week to go! Eine Woche noch! 🌈 Kommt alle, Universität Bremen, 2.7.! Ich freue mich @lisamirabai.bsky.social
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And for the pride month (so far coming with horrible news every day) I give you something really good: Uta’s book is now officially a thing!
Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps coming to you next year! 📕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps coming to you next year! 📕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
In happy news, the Manuscript Review Committee of the University of Toronto Press has approved my book manuscript on homophobia in Nazi camps in 2026! I am delighted and thankful @ankahajkova.bsky.social @cmick21.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
And for the pride month (so far coming with horrible news every day) I give you something really good: Uta’s book is now officially a thing!
Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps coming to you next year! 📕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps coming to you next year! 📕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
In happy news, the Manuscript Review Committee of the University of Toronto Press has approved my book manuscript on homophobia in Nazi camps in 2026! I am delighted and thankful @ankahajkova.bsky.social @cmick21.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In happy news, the Manuscript Review Committee of the University of Toronto Press has approved my book manuscript on homophobia in Nazi camps in 2026! I am delighted and thankful @ankahajkova.bsky.social @cmick21.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
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18 February 1886 | Czech Jew, Vilém Kraus, was born in Radějovice. A leather importer. He lived in Prague with his non-Jewish wife Marie and their children Edita and Pavel.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He perished in the camp.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He perished in the camp.
June 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…
womenshistorynetwork.org
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
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So I wrote an essay about images of women kissing in the Holocaust. Noone knows who they were. They are lesbian chimeras.
First: Mendel Grossman at the Łódź Central prison, possibly May 1942
First: Mendel Grossman at the Łódź Central prison, possibly May 1942
June 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
So I wrote an essay about images of women kissing in the Holocaust. Noone knows who they were. They are lesbian chimeras.
First: Mendel Grossman at the Łódź Central prison, possibly May 1942
First: Mendel Grossman at the Łódź Central prison, possibly May 1942
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Great to see research recently published in HWJ by @ankahajkova.bsky.social and Oksana Dudko referenced in Swedish newspapers.
Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
June 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Great to see research recently published in HWJ by @ankahajkova.bsky.social and Oksana Dudko referenced in Swedish newspapers.
Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
Read the full forum article here (free access) - six historians of Eastern Europe discuss decolonizing approaches
doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
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Das Letzte Ghetto ist nun vorbestellbar (€35). Danke, @megalley.bsky.social @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Das letzte Ghetto
Die erste analytische Geschichte einer Häftlingsgesellschaft während des Holocaust: soziale Hierarchien und Gewohnheiten in Theresienstadt.
www.transcript-verlag.de
June 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Das Letzte Ghetto ist nun vorbestellbar (€35). Danke, @megalley.bsky.social @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...