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

Hájková, Anna, 1978- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

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

364 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

Englisch

Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2013

Literaturverzeichnis Seiten 323-346. - Dissertation erschienen unter dem Titel: Prisoner Society in the Terezin Ghetto, 1941-1945

Erscheint auch als: The last ghetto / Hájková, Anna (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: The last ghetto / Hájková, Anna (Online-Ausgabe)

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Hájková, Anna, 1978-, The last ghetto] / Gruner, Wolf

978-0-19-005177-8 (hardback)

978-0-19-005179-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-0-19-005178-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2020012854

9780190051778

OCoLC: 1250469685     

HAAB Weimar: Signatur: NQ 2350 H154 | Sammlung: Sammlung Buchenwald der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek

NQ 2360      Ähnliche Literatur

D805.5.T54

940.53/1853716

Basisklassifikation: 15.43 (Deutsche Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart) ; 15.61 (Tschechien; Slowakei; Ungarn) <Geschichte>

SSG-Nummer(n): 1

*Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt ; Hochschulschrift      Zum Register

*Theresienstadt ; Getto ; Geschichte 1941-1945 ; Hochschulschrift      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) -- History ; Concentration camps -- Czech Republic -- Terezín (Ústecký kraj)

"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"--