Dr Anna Hájková
@ankahajkova
Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Ukraine stan. Author of The Last Ghetto and People without History Are Dust
and if you do not, here you have the third stanza, translated by Justus
Today, Nolan's The Odyssey opens in the cinemas. The poem is close to my heart. I grew up with Robert Graves and Irving Stone, with visits to the Pergamon museum. Un 2009, in an archive in Tel Aviv, I stumbled across a poem that sounded familiar: "Tell me, o Muse, the place where I made my home"
Sometimes people ask me how the critical engagement with my work looks like. Let me show you on the example of the instagram comments on the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social Becca Kantor's interview with me
Long swim today because very angry but 1km helped me put it behind me
Now we have @ceschmidt.bsky.social on Eva Reichmann and her female team who interviewed Holocaust survivors in the 1950s UK, and created prescient knowledge
Next, @pdavies.bsky.social on Dr Lucie Adelsberger’s production of her Auschwitz memoir in German, and what it took, as part of a collaborative project on women medical orderlies of Auschwitz
We are having a nice, tight panel on women’s testimonies from the Holocaust, solidarity, and uncovering marginalized voices. First, Jennifer Geddes on Charlotte Delbo’s Le Convoi du 24 janvier.
Biking to my morning swim I got called “b*tch” from a fellow cyclist 👀👀👀
What a fun workshop! Joanna Spyra and @alephross.bsky.social on ‘Researching Sexuality in (Jewish) Archives: Tools, Ethics, and Practice’ #BIAJS26
Nothing like a pre #BIAJS26 swim at the West Reservoir bright & early
Talking about antisemitism and antiracism, you will get lots of comments #biajs26 @toby-kunin.bsky.social @bengidley.bsky.social
Warwick Jewish studies (40% of that is) in place #BIAJS26 @biajs.bsky.social
The excellent first floor restaurant at the Prague airport: 471CZK for a full, warm meal.
Interviewed a number of people who knew Rosa Grünspan, a local Jewish trans woman who survived the Shoah and joined the Maquis… hope to write about her in the next book I’ll write
It is a stunningly beautiful location. The house stands on a small cliff, overlooking the sea in the Lübeck bay. The beach is directly in the front. I walked there the 5km from Travemünde. I wrote to my colleague Ewa Wiatr from the Lodz Holocaust Center, who is the expert of Lipszyc.
We usually imagine surviving or dying as this black/white category. But many of the liberated perished in the months that followed, never made it from the hospitals. Dan Stone described it for those women who made it out from Christianstadt:
Yesterday I visited Niendorf on the Lübeck Bay to see the site of the British military hospital where 40 very ill survivors from Bergen Belsen were brought in July 1945. They were critically ill with TB and typhus. Most of them passed away in the weeks that followed, one of them Therese Teichner.
Give up all hope you who are entering: nearly six years after publishing my book, OUP manages to fail at the most simple of tasks, such as send me my own book 8 days after dispatching the order. Or registering it with the US Copyright Office, ten months after catching that error which cost me 3k.
Off we go to Krnov! We barely pulled out from Hamburg main station and they tell us we will be 20 min late.