Anna Hájková - Between Love and Coercion: Sexuality in the Holocaust by History Hub published on 2022-10-12T14:12:14Z In this episode, Between Love and Coercion: Sexuality in the Holocaust. A lecture by Dr. Anna Hájková from University of Warwick. This hybrid event took place in UCD School of History on 6 October 2022 and was jointly organised by University College Dublin Centre for War Studies, Holocaust Education Ireland and the UCD History Seminar Series in Gender History. This talk explores the intersection of queer and Holocaust history through the example of an enforced relationship between two women, a guard and a Jewish woman, in a concentration camp in winter 1945. This coerced relationship raises issues of sexual violence, sexual barter, and homophobia. Based on survivors’ testimonies, postwar trials, and reparation files, Anna Hájková will show how a queer history of the Holocaust allows us to address agency and powerlessness of Holocaust victims. Genre History