@utarautenberg.bsky.social
Holocaust, Jewish, gender and queer History, genocide, feminism. Author of ‘Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps’. Educator and senior leader at secondary level in England. My views are my own.
PhDs and ECRs are invited to join our next PhD and a Cup of Tea Online seminar!
📍 Jewish slave labour and the SS concentration camp system through a spatial lens - Part of our latest series, Spatial Histories of the Holocaust
📅 March 10, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
💻 Online
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Congratulations on this award, @ankahajkova.bsky.social ! A much-deserved honour!
18.02.2026 13:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fantastic and much deserved! Congratulations, Anna!
18.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Six months until the publication of ‘Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps’ with @uoftpress.bsky.social The book is an analysis of queer experiences and accusations through the lens of prisoner perceptions. Pre-order now wherever you buy books!
31.01.2026 20:32 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0NB: Just a few years ago, pretty much all queer organizations commemorated #HMD. And then most stopped. Among the Holocaust victims were also tens of thousands of queer & trans people persecuted for their sexuality - and millions of Jews. Shame that solidarity is lost in post Oct 7 politicization.
27.01.2026 14:52 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
I will have this book event next week on Tuesday in London. In person, in Finchley:
www.paperlesspost.com/go/5DWDypqTg...
I just learned that "People without History Are Dust" is shortlisted for the National Jewish Book award. Alongside other fantastic books, such as that of my dear friend Kasia Person -- we are siblings at @uoftpress.bsky.social.
www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/75t...
Congratulations to @ankahajkova.bsky.social & Katarzyna Person!
People Without History Are Dust & The Hour of Revenge have been shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Awards, Nonfiction.
Vital works reshaping Jewish history & Holocaust memory: bit.ly/4jIqG5J
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
Congratulations, excellent news!
16.01.2026 06:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today is the official publication day of our Shattered Liberation co-edited volume. It is open access and already available for free download in your libraries. This book wouldn't be possible without the expertise and perseverance of our brilliant contributors. www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712195/
16.12.2025 05:53 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
Letter now republished by #LeftRenewal leftrenewal.org/statements-e... and @ukfost.bsky.social ukfost.co.uk/holocaust-st...
Cc @edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social @duhaut.bsky.social @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social @clairelefoll.bsky.social @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social
Interview übrigens hier zu sehen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gka7...
I am very pleased to see the announcement of Uta Rautenberg's much expected book on homophobia in Nazi concentration camps:
12.12.2025 16:55 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Very excited to share - coming in 2026!! @utpress.bsky.social utpdistribution.com/978104980440...
12.12.2025 16:30 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Now available: People Without History are Dust deepens our understanding of identity, survival, and memory by exploring same-sex desire in the Holocaust.
“It could not be a more urgent and timely message.” Benjamin Carter Hett, author
Order your copy: bit.ly/483yOtz
@ankahajkova.bsky.social
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:
Very exciting times!
31.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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'.
23.10.2025 09:45 — 👍 25 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1Congratulations, Anna! 🎉
31.10.2025 13:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
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/...
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...
Thank you - yes I did that and reported to Bluesky
23.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If 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
23.08.2025 07:30 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Come 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
20.08.2025 16:48 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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
02.08.2025 10:38 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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....
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....
Auf Tschechisch (und Deutsch) in ORF.
21.07.2025 12:33 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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.