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Author Adler, H. G., author

Title Theresienstadt, 1941-1945 : the face of a coerced community / H.G. Adler ; translated by Belinda Cooper ; general editor, Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss ; with an afterword Jeremy Adler
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Contents Machine generated contents note: I. history -- 1. Jews in the "Protectorate," 1939 -- 1941 -- 2. Theresienstadt: History and Establishment -- 3. Deportations to and from Theresienstadt -- Overview of the Deportations to Theresienstadt -- Overview of the Victims and Deportations from Theresienstadt -- Technical Aspects of the Transports to Theresienstadt -- Remarks Preliminary to Chapters 4 -- 7 -- 4. Closed Camp, November 1941 -- July 1942 -- 5. "Ghetto," July 1942 -- Summer 1943 -- 6. "Jewish Settlement Area," Summer 1943 -- September 1944 -- 7. Decline and Dissolution, September 1944 -- May 1945 -- II. sociology -- 8. Administration -- Overview of the Administrative Structure -- Description and Discussion -- 9. Transports -- Incoming Transports -- Outgoing Transports -- Sinister Nature of the Transports -- 10. Population -- 11. Housing -- 12. Nutrition -- Food Rations -- Bread and Allocation of Unprepared Foodstuffs -- Kitchens -- Individual Meals (Speisen) -- Actual Amounts versus Recorded Amounts -- "Supplemental Fare" and "Food Bonuses" -- Hopeless Fight for Fair Distribution of Food -- Method of Distribution -- Nutrition as the Main Problem -- 13. Labor -- Labor Deployment Statistics I -- Characterization of Administrative Work -- Documents Pertaining to the Work of the Central Labor Office -- Labor Deployment Statistics II -- Working Conditions and Overall Production -- 14. Economy -- External Economy -- Internal Economy -- Petty Economy -- 15. Legal Conditions -- 16. Health Conditions -- Typical Diseases -- Births -- Mortality and Death -- Public Health Care, Medical Research, and Medical Education -- 17. Welfare -- Welfare for the Elderly and Infirm -- Youth Welfare -- 18. Contact with the Outside World -- 19. Cultural Life -- III. PSYCHOLOGY -- 20. Psychological Face of the Coerced Community -- Experimentation and Destiny in History -- Theresienstadt as an Episode in Simultaneous History -- Theresienstadt as an Episode in Jewish History -- Typology of Individual Behavior -- On "Reality" -- Practical Psychology of the Camp -- Conclusion
Summary The first English-language edition of H.G. Adler's acclaimed account of the Jewish ghetto in the Czech city of Terezin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 31, 2017)
Subject Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
SUBJECT Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) fast
Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt gnd
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Internment camps
Form Electronic book
Author Cooper, Belinda, translator
Loewenhaar-Blauweiss, Amy, editor
Adler, Jeremy
ISBN 9781316377192
1316377199
9781316374191
131637419X
1316373193
9781316373194
Other Titles Theresienstadt, 1941-1945. English