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Name
  
Susan Zuccotti

Role
  
Historian

Education
  
Columbia University



Spouse
  
John Eugene Zuccotti (m. ?–2015)

Awards
  
National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian Relations, National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust

Books
  
Pere Marie‑Benoit and Jewi, Under His Very Windows, The Italians and the Holocaust, The Holocaust - the Frenc, Holocaust Odysseys: The Jews

Susan zuccotti s p re marie beno t and jewish rescue at new york university


Susan Sessions Zuccotti (born November 14, 1940) is an American historian, specializing in studies of the Holocaust. She holds a PhD in Modern European History from Columbia University. She has won a National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies, and the Premio Acqui Storia – Primo Lavoro for Italians and the Holocaust (1987). She also received a National Jewish Book Award for Jewish-Christian Relations, and the Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Prize of the German Studies Association in 2002 for Under His Very Windows (2000). She was married to real estate developer John Zuccotti until his death in 2015.

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Zuccotti has taught courses on Holocaust history at Barnard College and Trinity College.

Work on Vatican's Role in the Holocaust

Zuccotti argues in Under His Very Windows that Pope Pius XII knew of the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust and could have done more to stop it.

Books

  • The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue and Survival (1987)
  • The Holocaust, the French and the Jews (1993)
  • Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy (2000)
  • Holocaust odysseys: the Jews of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and their flight through France and Italy (2007)
  • Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue (2013)
  • References

    Susan Zuccotti Wikipedia