Lunchtime Lecture: LGBTQIA+ Holocaust Survival and Anti-Fascist...

Join us to commemorate the Transgender Day of Remembrance with a lunchtime lecture exploring stories of transgender and queer holocaust survivors, and post-war LGBTQIA+ anti-fascist activism.

This online lecture is a collaboration between the People’s History Museum (PHM) and the Wiener Holocaust Library (WHL). The lunchtime lecture will be given by Jaime Starr, a PHM Collections Assistant, freelance LGBTQIA+ historian, and doctoral scholar at Newcastle University, and Yasmin Gledhill, the Digital Engagement and Community Outreach Officer at the WHL.

The lecture will bring to light stories of queer resistance during the Holocaust and post-war LGBTQIA+ anti-fascist activism. They will also explore the fascinating stories of resilience and survival from trans patients and staff at Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.

Cover Photograph: Charlotte Charlaque with Toni Ebel. Tranås Tidning, October 28, 1933.

Virtual Event guidelines:

The Wiener Holocaust Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.

Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).

This event is free, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.

This event is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to share transgender and queer histories of the Holocaust and anti-fascist activism.