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
Breidbach, Olaf
Czech, Herwig
Fangerau, Heiner
Folta, Jaroslav
García Ferrandis, Xavier
Henrique, Márcio Couto
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Medicina Historica
American Historical Review
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Steiner
Yale University Press
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Concepts
Epidemics
Infectious diseases
Public health
Disease and diseases
Nazism
Physicians; doctors
People
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Menzel, Karl Moriz
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
21st century
17th century
18th century
Places
Bohemia
Germany
Moravia
Africa
Brazil
Central Europe
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