Susan Zuccotti

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Susan Zuccotti (born November 14, 1940 in Brooklyn ) is an American historian.

Life

Susan Sessions married New York real estate developer John Zuccotti (1937–2015). Zuccotti studied history and received a PhD in modern European history from Columbia University . Her research focus is Italian history during World War II and the Holocaust . She taught at Barnard College and Trinity College . Zuccotti's books have won the National Jewish Book Award . In 1987 she received the Italian Premio Acqui Storia - primo lavoro for L'Olocausto in Italia and in 2002 the “Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Prize” from the German Studies Association for the book Under His Very Windows .

Zuccotti did research in particular on the deportation of Roman Jews and in 2000, in her research work Under His Very Windows, came to an extremely critical assessment of Pope Pius XII's attitude . Their contributions have been vehemently rejected by the Vatican and some historians. On the now presented evidence of active rescue work of Pius XII. In 2004 it went into an essay in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and came to the conclusion that no papal directive was issued to save Jews in Italy (German: "There was no papal order to save Jews in Italy.") . In 2013 Zuccotti published a book about the Capuchin and Savior Père Marie-Benoît .

Fonts (selection)

  • Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish rescue: how a French priest together with Jewish friends saved thousands during the Holocaust . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013
  • Holocaust Odysseys: The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and Their Flight Through France and Italy . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-300-12294-7
  • Pius XII and the Rescue of Jews in Italy: Evidence of Papal Directive? In: Joshua D. Zimmerman (Ed.): Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule . Cambridge: Cambridge Press / NY, 2005, pp. 287-307. The book contains a short biography on p. XIX.
  • Two popes and the Holocaust: an examination of the controversy . Burlington, VT: The Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, 2005
  • Under his very windows: the Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy . New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2000
  • The Italian Racial Laws, 1938–1943: a Reevaluation , in: Jonathan Frankel (ed.): The Fate of the European Jews 1939–1945 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-511931-2 , pp. 133-152
  • The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993
  • The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue and Survival . London: Halban, 1987 ISBN 1-870015-03-7
  • The wartime experience and politicization: workers and peasants in the province of Milan, 1915-1918 . Dissertation Columbia University, 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Zuccotti is the namesake of Zuccotti Park , see: Sam Roberts: A Public Servant Whose Name Is Now on Protesters' Lips , in The New York Times , October 5, 2011
  2. ^ Susan Zuccotti: Pius XII and the Rescue of Jews in Italy: Evidence of Papal Directive? , in: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 18, No. 2, 2004
  3. ^ Susan Zuccotti: Pius XII and the Rescue of Jews in Italy: Evidence of Papal Directive? , 2005, p. 291
personal data
SURNAME Zuccotti, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn