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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Theresienstadt：1941-45 年犹太人集中营中的交通、人口和传染病的地理图片

纳粹隔都系统是二战期间在德国占领的欧洲迫害犹太人和其他民族的主要手段之一。运输和禁闭——隔都系统的两大支柱——本质上是地理问题，从国际到本地，影响着整个东欧隔都的人口和流行病学特征。本文使用基于地图的可视化和空间分析的地理技术来描绘 1941-45 年在德国前波希米亚和摩拉维亚保护国特莱西恩施塔特 (Terezín) 的纳粹“模型”集中营的人口和流行病历史。我们的研究重建了将犹太囚犯运送到隔都的时空模式和人口结构，以及它们与隔都内大量传染病爆发的关系。该研究强调了地理方法对了解大屠杀和其他种族灭绝事件的人口和公共卫生影响的重要性。