Article ID: CBB033267446

Theresienstadt: A Geographical Picture of Transports, Demography, and Communicable Disease in a Jewish Camp-Ghetto, 1941–45 (2020)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Stambolis, Barbara
Hlade, Josef
Halplin, Ross
Engel, R.
White, Alexandre I. R.
Peter Dowling
Concepts
Public health
Infectious diseases
Epidemics
Nazism
Jews
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century, early
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
18th century
Places
Germany
Philadelphia, PA
Moravia
Uruguay
Valencia (Spain)
Québec (Canada)
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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