The Last Ghetto

Today seems like the right time to give a shout out to Anna Hájková's new book The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt. This book uses extensive sources, including victim testimonies, that were collected in 99 archives from ten countries on three continents and were written in nine languages. Reviews are already enthusiastic, and according to the publisher, it is the "first modern study of the Theresienstadt ghetto." You can read more about this book here and order your own copy.

The author, much of whose research has focused on women's experience in the Nazi concentration camps and on sexual economics within the camps, has been the target of some attempted censorship as a result of her investigation of lesbian relationships within the camps. You can read more about this at The New Fascism Syllabus, which also offers the opportunity to sign a petition supporting her (I am one of the many scholars to have signed).