The new model for emptying a camp is more carrot, less stick, but more Keynes than Kumbaya.
Compared to Sa Kaew, the Ubon camp is a model community.
What gives the opera additional poignancy is that shortly before the first performance, Krasa, a Jew, was arrested and sent in an early transport to Theresienstadt, the "model camp" that was in fact a way station for Auschwitz.
The truth is that this camp is in no sense a model, although it is no worse than many of the Hitlerite concentration camps.
In each model the residence camp was considered as the random element and worker characteristics as fixed effects.
In Michigan, each camp is required to have a camp health officer (CHO) on-site.
A camp is not a static place.
Hans Krasa, who had just written the opera when he was arrested and confined there, was forced by the Nazis to stage it more than 50 times for visiting audiences to prove that this was a "model camp" where prisoners were treated so humanely that they even had an arts program.
