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Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy »

Authors: Susan Zuccotti
ISBN-13: 9780300084870, ISBN-10: 0300084870
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: December 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Susan Zuccotti

Book Synopsis

What did Pope Pius XII, his advisers, and his assistants at the Vatican do to help the Jews of Italy during World War II? This meticulously researched and balanced book finds that, despite the persistent myth that the pope worked behind the scenes to help the Jews, he and those around him actually did very little. Susan Zuccotti uncovers no evidence of a papal directive to church institutions to shelter Jews and much evidence that the pope remained uninvolved.

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	The Vatican and Anti-Semitism	8
Chapter 2	The Vatican and Anti-Semitism in Italy	27
Chapter 3	Italian Anti-Jewish Laws During the Papacy of Pius XI	42
Chapter 4	Italian Anti-Jewish Laws During the Papacy of Pius XII	58
Chapter 5	Refugees and Emigration, 1939-1942	70
Chapter 6	Foreign Jews in Italian Internment Camps, 1940-1943	82
Chapter 7	What the Pope Knew About the Holocaust	93
Chapter 8	Italian-Occupied Croatia, April 1941-July 1943	113
Chapter 9	Italy and Italian-Occupied France, November 1942-July 1943	127
Chapter 10	The Forty-Five Days: The Vatican, Badoglio, and the Jews	137
Chapter 11	Under the Pope's Very Windows: The Rome Roundup, October 16, 1943	150
Chapter 12	Hiding Before the Roundup, September 8-October 16, 1943	171
Chapter 13	Hiding After the Roundup: Roman Convents, Monasteries, Catholic Hospitals and Schools, October 16-December 1943	189
Chapter 14	Hiding After the Roundup: Vatican Properties, October 16-December 1943	202
Chapter 15	Raids and Reconsideration, December 1943-June 1944	215
Chapter 16	The Vatican and Rescue in the North: Genoa, Turin, and Milan	233
Chapter 17	The Vatican and Rescue in Central Italy: Florence and Assisi	251
Chapter 18	The Vatican, the Patriarch, and the Jews in Venice	265
Chapter 19	The Vatican, the Bishop, and the Jews in Trieste	277
Chapter 20	The Vatican and Jews Arrested in Italy, December 1943-May 1945	291
	Conclusion	300
	Abbreviations	327
	Notes	329
	Index	397

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