Dr. Denisa Nešťáková is a historian focusing on the history of far-right movements, the Holocaust, and gender studies in 20th-century East Central Europe. She works as a research associate at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Germany and is concluding her post-doctoral project, Privileged to be in Hell. Jewish Women in the Sereď Camp, for which she received support also from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. Her research results were published in articles: “’Our little ones were raped!’ Child Sexual Abuse in Sereď Camp,” (2024), “Public Health as Resistance in the Sereď Camp in Slovakia” (2025), and “Intimacy as Survival: Gendered Strategies in Sereď Camp” (2026). Dr.Nešťáková’s examination of the history of family planning in Central and Eastern Europe included a chapter on wartime Jewish family life published in the book Be Fruitful and Multiply. Slovakia’s Family Planning under three regimes (1918-1965) (Verlag Herder Institut, 2023), which received the 2024 Slovak Studies Association Book Prize.
Denisa Nešťáková
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Dr. Denisa Nešťáková is a historian focusing on the history of far-right movements, the Holocaust, and gender studies in 20th-century East Central Europe. She works as a research associate at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Germany and is concluding her post-doctoral project, Privileged to be in Hell. Jewish Women in the Sereď Camp, for which…