https://mla.hcommons.org/members/ankahajkova/activity/ Activity feed for Anna Hajkova. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:00:00 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5283ac28da8a59afc911562a6495f8b8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686907/ Mon, 11 May 2020 16:26:35 -0400 This article is a first original exploration of queer Holocaust history, that is same sex desire between Jews who had been deported to ghettos and concentration camps. The prisoner society in the Nazi camps was characterized by wide-reaching homophobia which used construction of sexual deviance as a tool of othering. It brought about…[Read more]

]]> 0 5283ac28da8a59afc911562a6495f8b8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686906/ Mon, 11 May 2020 16:26:35 -0400 This article is a first original exploration of queer Holocaust history, that is same sex desire between Jews who had been deported to ghettos and concentration camps. The prisoner society in the Nazi camps was characterized by wide-reaching homophobia which used construction of sexual deviance as a tool of othering. It brought about…[Read more]

]]> 0 54eabe9faf0a8be0d52e1300d5c77643 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686905/ Mon, 11 May 2020 16:26:27 -0400 This article is a first original exploration of queer Holocaust history, that is same sex desire between Jews who had been deported to ghettos and concentration camps. The prisoner society in the Nazi camps was characterized by wide-reaching homophobia which used construction of sexual deviance as a tool of othering. It brought about…[Read more]

]]> 0 5fcf484f352bdfe6323d59ad6ddf307c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686858/ Mon, 11 May 2020 07:32:53 -0400 This article is a first original exploration of queer Holocaust history, that is same sex desire between Jews who had been deported to ghettos and concentration camps. The prisoner society in the Nazi camps was characterized by wide-reaching homophobia which used construction of sexual deviance as a tool of othering. It brought about…[Read more]

]]> 0 08a285935a5a39b31b7871824f8d5167 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686857/ Mon, 11 May 2020 07:30:06 -0400 0 f8d42d5f70151e1342fe129152e6cddd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565366/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:26 -0400 In 2013 the Israeli historian Otto Dov Kulka published a recollection of his childhood in concentration camps, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death. Historians and general audiences praised the poetic and reflective tone of the book. Deported at 11 years of age from Theresienstadt, Kulka spent a year and half at Auschwitz and is one of the very…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8d42d5f70151e1342fe129152e6cddd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565365/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:26 -0400 In 2013 the Israeli historian Otto Dov Kulka published a recollection of his childhood in concentration camps, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death. Historians and general audiences praised the poetic and reflective tone of the book. Deported at 11 years of age from Theresienstadt, Kulka spent a year and half at Auschwitz and is one of the very…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4c2485f8f43672e1e6e32fda3fca60d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565364/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:25 -0400 In 2013 the Israeli historian Otto Dov Kulka published a recollection of his childhood in concentration camps, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death. Historians and general audiences praised the poetic and reflective tone of the book. Deported at 11 years of age from Theresienstadt, Kulka spent a year and half at Auschwitz and is one of the very…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2732c8f5744810e7c80c2079e0b0129 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565362/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:25 -0400 Overview article on history and logistics of the Westerbork transit camp, making extensive use of the original Westerbork records in the NIOD. The paper also specifies the connection between the Jewish Council in Amsterdam and Westerbork, as well as the set-up of transports and the system of “Sperren”. The article includes a complete and revised…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1eefc2c1e55b17e72a9de92824c696a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565361/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:24 -0400 Overview article on history and logistics of the Westerbork transit camp, making extensive use of the original Westerbork records in the NIOD. The paper also specifies the connection between the Jewish Council in Amsterdam and Westerbork, as well as the set-up of transports and the system of “Sperren”. The article includes a complete and revised…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1eefc2c1e55b17e72a9de92824c696a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565360/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:24 -0400 Overview article on history and logistics of the Westerbork transit camp, making extensive use of the original Westerbork records in the NIOD. The paper also specifies the connection between the Jewish Council in Amsterdam and Westerbork, as well as the set-up of transports and the system of “Sperren”. The article includes a complete and revised…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c32b0d4e2c7e0130cef92d581ade9b6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565358/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:24 -0400 This is (to my knowledge) the first piece of scholarship to systematically analyze victim masculinity in the Holocaust.
Survivor testimonies paint a picture of Terezín as a society dominated by an elite strata of dynamic young men, respected by almost everyone in the ghetto. This is a surprise, since the cultures from which all deported Jews…[Read more]

]]> 0 78a68029ee667b0f852b57c03669c1f6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565357/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:23 -0400 This is (to my knowledge) the first piece of scholarship to systematically analyze victim masculinity in the Holocaust.
Survivor testimonies paint a picture of Terezín as a society dominated by an elite strata of dynamic young men, respected by almost everyone in the ghetto. This is a surprise, since the cultures from which all deported Jews…[Read more]

]]> 0 19c4f86d27b63a2fa05afb83292a2b84 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565355/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:23 -0400 This article examines the relationship of Benjamin Murmelstein and the SS. Murmelstein, the deputy chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Vienna, was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in January 1943, and became the ghetto’s last Elder of the Jews during the large transports to Auschwitz in fall 1944. He had a long and prominent p…[Read more]

]]> 0 223f549c35247c9445fcc745d30ff647 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565354/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:22 -0400 This article examines the relationship of Benjamin Murmelstein and the SS. Murmelstein, the deputy chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Vienna, was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in January 1943, and became the ghetto’s last Elder of the Jews during the large transports to Auschwitz in fall 1944. He had a long and prominent p…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7e09b02535a77654b8798909d02202f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565352/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:22 -0400 This article takes the 5,000 Jews from the Netherlands whom the Nazis deported to Theresienstadt as a point of departure to examine larger issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and habitus in the camp society. About two thirds of this group were German and Austrian emigrants, the other third people born in the Netherlands: While the former accustomed…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7e09b02535a77654b8798909d02202f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565351/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:22 -0400 This article takes the 5,000 Jews from the Netherlands whom the Nazis deported to Theresienstadt as a point of departure to examine larger issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and habitus in the camp society. About two thirds of this group were German and Austrian emigrants, the other third people born in the Netherlands: While the former accustomed…[Read more]

]]> 0 4de59cb309d0312d3e0ff19b8599f46c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565350/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:22 -0400 How are we to understand the concept of “citizenship” in the context of women victims in the Holocaust society?

]]> 0 45d62db4a4075f57f99506312c9e2b2f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565349/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:21 -0400 How are we to understand the concept of “citizenship” in the context of women victims in the Holocaust society?

]]> 0 823bad5eb1cced72cdbdc766320b2743 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565348/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:21 -0400 This article examines the situation of German Jewish elderly in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

]]> 0 2df3862b787b2e62b597fb137c99f422 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565346/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:20 -0400 What was Jewish belonging in Central Europe, and how was it influenced by the Holocaust? This article examines the ways in which Czech Jews negotiated their bonds with Jewishness immediately before, during and after the Second World War. Building on a theoretical framework of affiliation developed by Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper, the essay…[Read more]

]]> 0 c20c69934e9629688f0457cd39f0fd04 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565344/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:20 -0400 This study offers a transnational history of the Holocaust based on a study of a well-known Berlin Jewish family, the Veit Simons. We use this tangled family history as a point of departure for a transnational history of the Holocaust. In particular, we show how to read the links connecting the protagonists to the wider world as a means of writing…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ce416124988bdec0d6cf08f1159b397 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565340/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:20 -0400 There is a wealth of problems with Claude Lanzmann’s recent film The Last of the Unjust, on Benjamin Murmelstein, the last Elder of the Jews of Theresienstadt. Yet the most aggravating of them is that it portrays Murmelstein as someone who he was not, namely as a heroic figure. In styling Murmelstein as a tragic hero, Lanzmann projects his own p…[Read more]

]]> 0 211c21081d4af606f1ed80cd7578efd6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565339/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:19 -0400 There is a wealth of problems with Claude Lanzmann’s recent film The Last of the Unjust, on Benjamin Murmelstein, the last Elder of the Jews of Theresienstadt. Yet the most aggravating of them is that it portrays Murmelstein as someone who he was not, namely as a heroic figure. In styling Murmelstein as a tragic hero, Lanzmann projects his own p…[Read more]

]]> 0 0350fae9217247344010add69d153ad7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565338/ Sun, 26 Mar 2017 01:13:18 -0400 The conditions in transit ghetto of Theresienstadt generated in the inmates’ society a phenomenon of deliberate exchange of female sexual and social favors for food, protection, and symbolic capital. Scholars who have been analyzing sexuality of the victims in the Holocaust have so far only focused on sexual violence (including forced p…[Read more]

]]> 0 38cec30c45bbdba09da5d240970c1fed https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565240/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:48:51 -0400 In 2013 the Israeli historian Otto Dov Kulka published a recollection of his childhood in concentration camps, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death. Historians and general audiences praised the poetic and reflective tone of the book. Deported at 11 years of age from Theresienstadt, Kulka spent a year and half at Auschwitz and is one of the very…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9d25952681e9417f53612bfa85ebe8d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565239/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:39:18 -0400 Overview article on history and logistics of the Westerbork transit camp, making extensive use of the original Westerbork records in the NIOD. The paper also specifies the connection between the Jewish Council in Amsterdam and Westerbork, as well as the set-up of transports and the system of “Sperren”. The article includes a complete and revised…[Read more]

]]> 0 0975b0df51a51e0512594084e95240c5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565228/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:52:14 -0400 0 29593d04187e3e4e495db55020dd5e23 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565227/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:50:21 -0400 0 c481c28cb94ffd4ad872c8d03b39f82b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565226/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:47:50 -0400 There is a wealth of problems with Claude Lanzmann’s recent film The Last of the Unjust, on Benjamin Murmelstein, the last Elder of the Jews of Theresienstadt. Yet the most aggravating of them is that it portrays Murmelstein as someone who he was not, namely as a heroic figure. In styling Murmelstein as a tragic hero, Lanzmann projects his own p…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f40f4ed825baa6b0cc8df45057ac0b3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565225/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:41:52 -0400 This is (to my knowledge) the first piece of scholarship to systematically analyze victim masculinity in the Holocaust.
Survivor testimonies paint a picture of Terezín as a society dominated by an elite strata of dynamic young men, respected by almost everyone in the ghetto. This is a surprise, since the cultures from which all deported Jews…[Read more]

]]> 0 97ed3cdfcba1135e29327cd412da3556 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565224/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:37:28 -0400 This article examines the relationship of Benjamin Murmelstein and the SS. Murmelstein, the deputy chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Vienna, was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in January 1943, and became the ghetto’s last Elder of the Jews during the large transports to Auschwitz in fall 1944. He had a long and prominent p…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b28c976199677f4db9f03e996c6f49f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565223/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:28:20 -0400 This article takes the 5,000 Jews from the Netherlands whom the Nazis deported to Theresienstadt as a point of departure to examine larger issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and habitus in the camp society. About two thirds of this group were German and Austrian emigrants, the other third people born in the Netherlands: While the former accustomed…[Read more]

]]> 0 292efb884cd4d7365dc4aa27a2d5f985 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565222/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:22:16 -0400 How are we to understand the concept of “citizenship” in the context of women victims in the Holocaust society?

]]> 0 e5e34e550f679c015b06b9401296e8a0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565221/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:09:15 -0400 This article examines the situation of German Jewish elderly in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

]]> 0 ddc7bc29e69e0f63b6f59d4489cb0127 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565220/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:52:59 -0400 What was Jewish belonging in Central Europe, and how was it influenced by the Holocaust? This article examines the ways in which Czech Jews negotiated their bonds with Jewishness immediately before, during and after the Second World War. Building on a theoretical framework of affiliation developed by Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper, the essay…[Read more]

]]> 0 480ba043853b90733ac7f3087140edd5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565219/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:47:09 -0400 The conditions in transit ghetto of Theresienstadt generated in the inmates’ society a phenomenon of deliberate exchange of female sexual and social favors for food, protection, and symbolic capital. Scholars who have been analyzing sexuality of the victims in the Holocaust have so far only focused on sexual violence (including forced p…[Read more]

]]> 0 14c5f233693ecb8ee9809f51131eddae https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565218/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:38:44 -0400 This study offers a transnational history of the Holocaust based on a study of a well-known Berlin Jewish family, the Veit Simons. We use this tangled family history as a point of departure for a transnational history of the Holocaust. In particular, we show how to read the links connecting the protagonists to the wider world as a means of writing…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ec1009de0b5b00231b09d849550c4f7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565217/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:31:27 -0400 This article discusses the award-winning book by Otto Dov Kulka, Krajiny metropole smrti. The book, which tells of the author’s childhood experience in Nazi concentration camps, depicts a family that did not exist. Kulka wrote out his older sister and first father, possibly because their mention would point to the fact that his mother had bad an e…[Read more]

]]> 0 d272980e077dc9ad09b60470e11c951a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565215/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:24:57 -0400 This is one of my oldest published article and I realized I don’t even have it as proofs. Here is the most recent version I found on my laptop. Der Aufsatz untersucht die Entstehung der Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung in Amsterdam im März 1941. Der späte Zeitpunkt der Errichtung einer Emigrationsinstitution, deren Ereigniskontext (Fe…[Read more]

]]> 0 be81f8655e62a580d4aa83345b2e1e7d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1565117/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:06:55 -0400 0