Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community First English Language Edition Edition by H. G. Adler (Author), Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss (Editor), Belinda Cooper (Translator), Jeremy Adler (Afterword), Benton Arnovitz (Assistant) (Cambridge University Press)

Originally published in German in 1955, and revised in 1960, H. G. Adler’s Theresienstadt 1941–1945 is a foundational work in Holocaust studies. As the first scholarly monograph to describe the particulars of a single camp—the Jewish ghetto in the Czech fortess-city of Terezín—it is the single most detailed and com prehensive account of any concentration camp. Adler, a Theresienstadt survivor, provides a history of that ghetto, a detailed institutional and social analysis of the camp, and his informed understanding of the psychology of the perpetrators and the victims.

Long-awaited, this authoritative text is available for the first time in the English language, and with a new afterword by the author’s son, Professor Jeremy Adler.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Leo Baeck
Preface to the second edition by H.G. Adler
Preface to the first edition by H.G. Adler
Part I. History:
1. The Jews in the ‘Protectorate’, 1939–1941
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.
Chronological summary
Sources and literature
Afterword by Jeremy Adler
Index

Upon H. G. Adler’s arrival in Terezín, he set about creating an account of his experiences there, from a multifaceted perspective. He spent the rest of his life producing works that probed the dangers of dehumanization inherent in modern ideological movements. Despite support from figures as influential as Albert Einstein and Ralph Bunche, his works on Terezín were not translated into English during his lifetime. More recently, H. G. Adler’s writing has been included in important collections of German-Jewish writing, along with the works of luminaries such as Buber, Heine, Herzl, Kafka, and Moses Mendelsohn.