CHAPTER 7: THEATRE OF THE ABSURD.

This chapter focuses on the medical and cultural achievements in the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt, Czech Republic in early 1940s. The Nazis helped Theresienstadt's medical department build a large medical library and even ordered the doctors to hold seminars for each other, allowing Czech doctors to lecture in Czech. The medical department set up a special division on infectious diseases. The explosion of cultural activity began the month after the first Aufbaukommando arrived when the young construction workers obtained Nazi permission to hold a Comradeship Evening. While poetry became Theresienstadt's most common medium of artistic expression, lecturing became its most frequent cultural event.