Theresienstadt

A Geographical Picture of Transports, Demography, and Communicable Disease in a Jewish Camp-Ghetto, 1941–45

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11204992
AutoresMatthew R Smallman-Raynor (0000-0002-0942-7209, University of Nottingham, autor de correspondencia), A D Cliff (0000-0002-5636-0959, University of Cambridge)
Año2020
Volumen44
Número4
Páginas615-639
Fecha de publicación2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Science History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/ssh.2020.23
OpenAlexW3042710005
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas37

The Nazi ghetto system was one of the principal vehicles for the persecution of Jewish and other peoples in German-occupied Europe in World War II. Transport and confinement—twin pillars of the ghetto system—were intrinsically geographical matters that operated on scales from the international to the local and that shaped the demographic and epidemiological character of ghettos across Eastern Europe. This article uses geographical techniques of map-based visualization and spatial analysis to portray the demographic and epidemic history of the Nazi “model” camp-ghetto at Theresienstadt (Terezín) in the former German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1941–45. Our study reconstructs the space-time pattern and demographic structure of transports of Jewish prisoners to the ghetto and their association with substantial outbreaks of communicable diseases in the ghetto. The study highlights the importance of a geographical approach to an understanding of the demographic and public health impacts of both the Holocaust and other genocidal events

Archaeology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · German · Judaism · Nazism · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · World War II · Demography · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Social and Cultural Studies