The last ghetto : an everyday history of Theresienstadt / Anna Hájková.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hájková, Anna, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)--History.

Theresienstadt (Concentration camp).

Nazi concentration camps--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj).

Nazi concentration camps.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

'The Last Ghetto' is a social and cultural history of Terezín, or Theresienstadt, a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews prior to their deportation for murder in the East. It offers the first analytical case study of a Holocaust victim society that explains human behavior in extremis, and demonstrates how prisoners created new social hierarchies, reshaped their conceptions of family, and developed new loyalties. Based on extensive research in archives around the world and empathetic reading of victim testimonies, this history of everyday life in a prisoner society reveals the many forms of agency and adaptation in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos.

Contents:

Introduction: The well-known, poorly understood ghetto

1. "The overorganized ghetto:" administering Terezin

2. A society based on inequality

3. The age of pearl barley: food and hunger

4. Medicine and illness

5. Cultural life: leisure time activities

6. Transports to the East.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-005179-5

0-19-005180-9

0-19-005178-7