Authors: Susan Zuccotti
ISBN-13: 9780300093100, ISBN-10: 0300093101
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: February 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
Zuccotti's conclusion is . . . absolute and thorough.
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 |