Theresienstadt 1941–1945
The Face of a Coerced Community

The first English-language edition of H. G. Adler's acclaimed account of the Jewish ghetto in the Czech city of Terezin.

H. G. Adler (Author), Belinda Cooper (Translated by), Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss (General editor), Jeremy Adler (Afterword by), Benton Arnovitz (Assisted by)

9781108728683, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 November 2021

883 pages, 1 map
25.4 x 17.8 x 4.4 cm, 1.503 kg

'Adler draws capably on ideas from anthropology, economics, education, ethics, Judaism, penology, philosophy, political science, and other such fields… It belongs in every library, public and private, that would house the best in Holocaust scholarship.' Arthur Shostak, The European Legacy

First published in 1955, with a revised edition appearing five years later, H. G. Adler's Theresienstadt, 1941–1945 is a foundational work in the field of Holocaust studies. As the first scholarly monograph to describe the particulars of a single camp - the Jewish ghetto in the Czech city of Terezin - it is the single most detailed and comprehensive account of any concentration camp. Adler, a survivor of the camp, divides the book into three sections: a history of the ghetto, a detailed institutional and social analysis of the camp, and an attempt to understand the psychology of the perpetrators and the victims. A collaborative effort between the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Terezin Publishing Project makes this authoritative text on Holocaust history available for the first time in the English language, with a new afterword by the author's son Jeremy Adler.

Part I. History: 1. The Jews in the 'Protectorate', 1939–41
2. Theresienstadt: history and establishment
3. Deportations to and from Theresienstadt
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
Part II. Sociology: 8. Administration
9. The transport
10. Population
11. Housing
12. Nutrition
13. Labor
14. Economy
15. Legal conditions
16. Health conditions
17. Welfare
18. Contact with the outside world
19. Cultural life
Part III. Psychology: 20. The psychological face of the coerced community.

Subject Areas: Jewish studies [JFSR1], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]