The last ghetto: an everyday history of Theresienstadt

"The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prisoner society during the Holocaust. Terezín (Theresienstadt in German) was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in...

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Subtitles:Prisoner Society in the Terezin Ghetto, 1941-1945
主要作者: Hájková, Anna 1978- (Author)
企業作者: University of Toronto (Degree granting institution)
格式: Print 圖書
語言:English
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出版: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
評論:[Rezension von: Hájková, Anna, 1978-, The last ghetto] (2022) (Gruner, Wolf, 1960 -)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt
B Theresienstadt / 聚集區 / 歷史 1941-1945
Further subjects:B Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) History
B Concentration Camps (Czech Republic) (Terezín (Ústecký kraj))
B 學位論文
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總結:"The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prisoner society during the Holocaust. Terezín (Theresienstadt in German) was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Rather than depict the world of the prisoners as an atomized state of exception, it argues that the prisoner societies in the Holocaust are best understood as existing among the many versions of societies as we know them. This book challenges the claims of Holocaust exceptionalism and insisting that we view it with the same analytical tools as other historical events. The prisoner society Terezín produced its own social hierarchies, but the contents of categories such as class changed radically: seemingly small differences among prisoners could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half year of the ghetto's existence, prisoners created their own culture and habits, bonded, fell in love, and forged new families. The shared Jewishness of the prisoners was not the basis of their identities, but rather, prisoners embraced their ethnic origin. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages, The Last Ghetto is a transnational, cultural, social, gender, and organizational history of Terezín, revealing how human society works in extremis"--
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis Seiten 323-346
Dissertation erschienen unter dem Titel: Prisoner Society in the Terezin Ghetto, 1941-1945
ISBN:0190051779