Talk:Anna Hájková

Primary source
The lead contains opinion of Hájková about herself. Don't we prefer secondary sources?Xx236 (talk) 08:19, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

"Self-identification" as Jewish
The fact that Prof. Hajkova "identifies as Jewish," included in this article, is of questionable accuracy. Other than one article in the Guardian, I have not been able to find a single other source to corroborate this fact. The relevant quote from the Guardian article in question simply reads "The Jewish Czech academic, who is also a descendant of Holocaust victims..." I believe the newspaper incorrectly assumed she was Jewish due to her parents surviving the camps. They were active in the resistance movement, and have been recognized by Yad Vashem as "righteous about the Nations," a title granted to non-Jews who selflessly helped Jews escape the Holocaust during WWII. I will remove the reference from this article, if someone finds more source to corroborate her claim we can revert. Toadchavay (talk) 21:39, 25 January 2023 (UTC)


 * on Twitter, Hájková has posted that she is descended from Jewish Holocaust survivors on her mother's side. Given her occupation I don't think she is lying about it. It should probably be changed just to "is Jewish". (t &#183; c)  buidhe  22:06, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. Nazgul02 (talk) 19:16, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Can you link me to the relevant tweet? She has two famous grandparents, Alena Hájková and Miloš Hájek both of whom survived the Holocaust, but were not Jewish. They were sent to the camps because they helped Czech Jews hide from the Nazis, and were active in the resistance movement. Since they were named Righteous Among Nations, they are both definitely not Jewish. However Hajkova may be referring to different people when she talks about having survivors on her mother's side, I haven't been able to find anything about her other set of grandparents. Toadchavay (talk) 20:25, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I cannot figure out how to search through an individual's twitter account, and I'm not going to scroll through months of tweets to find it. But I definitely remember seeing a thread about her maternal grandfather, I think named Pavel, who was half-Jewish and managed to avoid being deported during the war, then afterwards married a Jewish woman. Their daughter was Hájková's mother. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  05:14, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * No I didn't find it but do see this tweet. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  05:23, 16 February 2023 (UTC)