The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in collaboration with GALA Queer Archive (GALA), invite you to a special lecture by Dr Mirjam Zadoff on What we’ve lost: On the History and Presence of Queer Lives.

Dr Zadoff, the director of Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism will discuss the successful exhibition “TO BE SEEN. Queer lives 1900–1950″ currently showing at the Documentation Centre. The talk will look at lessons learnt, especially in terms of education, creating safe spaces, engaging past diversity, and discussions on terminology, amongst other issues. The lecture will be opened by Keval Harie, director of GALA Queer Archive.

“TO BE SEEN. Queer lives 1900–1950” examines how thousands of homosexual men were persecuted, sent to concentration camps and murdered in Nazi Germany. Their stories have remained untold for a long time, as discriminating policies continued to be in place in postwar Germany. The exhibition does not only focus on the persecution of LGBTIQ*, but sheds light on the visibility of queerness during the Weimar republic and unveils a fascinating and largely forgotten history of diversity and acceptance.

Registration is essential to dowi@jhbholocaust.co.za

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Dr Mirjam Zadoff is director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. Previously she has held the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has published broadly in the field of Jewish and Holocaust Studies – among her recent publications are: Werner Scholem. A German Life (2017), Next Year in Marienbad. The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture (2012), and the edited volume Four Years After. Ethnonationalism, Antisemitism, and Racism in Trump’s America, ed. together with Noam Zadoff, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum and Heike Paul (2020).