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The Last Ghetto: Understanding Theresienstadt – A Conversation with Anna Hájková

April 13, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

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Join us for a conversation with Anna Hájková, author of The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt. This new consideration of Theresienstadt provides the first in-depth analytical history of prison society during the Holocaust, and is based on archival sources from dozens of archives from ten countries and in nine languages.

This event is sponsored by the Norman and Irma Braman chair in Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida.

Speakers:

Hájková

Anna Hájková is Associate Professor of Modern European Continental History at the University of Warwick. She regularly contributes to mass media in English, German, and Czech in the publications Haaretz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tablet, and Tagespiegel. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto; her dissertation, on which The Last Ghetto is based, was awarded both the Herbert Steiner as well as the Irma Rosenberg Prizes 2014.

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Alan E. Steinweis is the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Kristallnacht 1938 (Harvard University Press, 2009); Studying the Jew: Antisemitic Scholarship in Nazi Germany (Harvard University Press, 2006); and Art, Ideology and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). He is currently writing a history of Nazi Germany, which will be published by Cambridge University Press.

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Norman J.W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. He is author of Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2006) and The Holocaust: Europe, the World and the Jews, 1918-1945 (2nd ed. 2022). He is currently at work on a book concerning the 1987 trial of Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie in Lyon.

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Date:
April 13, 2021
Time:
7:00 pm