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Margot Heuman was the first lesbian Jewish Holocaust survivor who bore testimony of her experience.

The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman

Screening and discussion with the authors of the play

Event

Date: Friday, March 17
Time:
2:30–4:30 pm
Location:
Health Sciences Building Room GB03, 107 Wiggins Rd., Saskatoon

Free and open to the public

About this event

This event is a screening of the play The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman followed by a Q&A with the play’s authors: Dr. Anna Hájková (PhD) of the University of Warwick and Dr. Erika Hughes (PhD) of the University of Portsmouth.

The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman is a “documentary” play based on oral interviews conducted by Hájková with Margot Heuman—a queer Holocaust survivor. For decades, Margot bore testimony about her imprisonment, but never discussed the actual meaning of her relationship with Emma, a Viennese girl she met in Theresienstadt. Only when talking to Hájková, an openly lesbian historian interested in queerness, did Margot share her whole story. The relationship between Margot and Emma, as we will discover thanks to this play, sustained both teenagers and allowed them to resist.

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Science Office of the Vice-Dean Research, Scholarly and Artistic Work; the Department of History; and the Department of Drama.

Info: Dr. Alessio Ponzio (PhD) | alp216@mail.usask.ca


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