The Last Ghetto is a social and cultural history of Terezín or Theresienstadt a transit
ghetto for Central and Western European Jews prior to their deportation for murder in the East.
It offers the first analytical case study of a Holocaust victim society that explains human
behavior in extremis and demonstrates how prisoners created new social hierarchies reshaped
their conceptions of family and developed new loyalties. Based on extensive research in
archives around the world and empathetic reading of victim testimonies this history of
everyday life in a prisoner society reveals the many forms of agency and adaptation in Nazi
concentration camps and ghettos.
