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Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors.
People Without History Are Dust challenges this silence, weaving together compelling stories of German, Dutch, Czech, and Polish Jewish Holocaust victims and survivors – including Anne Frank, Molly Applebaum, Margot Heuman, and Gad Beck – whose experiences help illuminate the hidden history of queerness in a time of genocide.
Drawing on extensive archival research, this groundbreaking book uncovers the lives of those who were doubly marginalized, not only persecuted as Jews but also as queer individuals. In doing so, it confronts the ways in which history has excluded or minimized their experiences, urging us to question normative accounts of the Holocaust.
By shedding light on these long-overlooked stories,
People Without History Are Dust deepens our understanding of identity, survival, and memory, reminding us why an inclusive and complex approach to history is essential – not just for the sake of the past, but in service to the present and the future as well.
Sommario
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Jennifer Evans
Preface
1. Towards a Queer History of the Holocaust
The Queer Archival Gap
Homophobia
Gad Beck
Queer Desire in Theresienstadt
Conclusion
2. People without History Are Dust
Margot Heuman
Queer Kinship
Nate Leipciger
Anne Frank
Molly Applebaum
Jiří Vrba
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Anna Hájková is a reader of history at the University of Warwick.
> is a freelance German-to-English translator and a historian of the Holocaust, gender and sexuality, and sexual violence, currently based at the University of Warwick.
Riassunto
People Without History are Dust explores same-sex desire in the Holocaust, telling the gripping stories of queer Jews that have been long silenced by the homophobia of survivors.
