The Last Ghetto av Anna (Associate Professor of Modern European Continental History Associate Professor of Modern European Continental History Univers

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Terez¿ as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terez¿was the last ghetto to be liberated, one day after the end of World War II.The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods, Anna H¿ov¿rgues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism, H¿ov¿nsists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. The prison society of Terez¿produced its own so