Thu, Nov 21
|Holocaust Museum LA
The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt
Join us for a discussion with historian Dr. Anna Hajkova and Randy Schoenberg to discuss Dr. Hajkova's groundbreaking book on survival in Theresienstadt during the Holocaust.
Time & Location
Nov 21, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Holocaust Museum LA, 100 The Grove Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
About
Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated, one day after the end of World War II.
The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Dr. Hajkova's research sheds light on how people adapt, survive, and find belonging in the most extreme situations, highlighting the power of human resilience.
Dr Anna Hájková is Reader of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick. She is the author of the celebrated new study The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (2020) and People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust (2021), forthcoming in expanded English translation with the University of Toronto Press. She is the pioneer of queer Holocaust history and her work has been recognized with the Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship (2013) and Orfeo Iris Prize (2020).
Randy Schoenberg is an American lawyer and genealogist, based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in legal cases related to the recovery of looted or stolen artworks, particularly those by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
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