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Title: The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival by Susan Zuccotti, Furio Colombo ISBN: 0-8032-9911-7 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: WELL DOCUMANTED
Comment: If you want to know a brief and condensed history of the situation of Jews in Italy during the nighmarish years of the WWII,this is the book to read.
I do not share the view of the writer who gives the reason (among others)for the survival of the majority of the Jews of Italy survived because they were "nonsubmissive" and " a tiny minority (who were massacreted) were terrified,unimaginative,passive..."
Millions of Jews perished under the nazis. Hardly I can say it was because they were unimaginative and passive,included those Jews and non Jews who died in the Ardeatine Caves (in Rome) who were dragged out from their homes or prision with to their deaths.
Rating: 5
Summary: A compassionate human being
Comment: I recently saw Susan Zuccotti lecture at Seton Hall University and was very impressed by her scholarship, objectivity and above all, compassion. Being the daughter of an Italian Jew who suffered the humiliation of the racial laws during the late l930's, I was fascinated by the fact that only 15% of Italian Jews perished during the war. Professor Zuccotti presents this fact along with others still contending that while this was a relatively small percent compared with other countries in Europe, the pain and loss suffered must not be minimized. Similarly, she presents a very objective view of Pius XII involvement(or lack therof) in saving the Jews. While she states that there was no evidence of a clear directive from the Pope,she does acknowledge the behind-the-scenes efforts by so many in local churches, convents, monasteries and schools who sheltered Jews under very dangerous circumstances. Again, I have several friends and relatives of my father's generation in Italy and NYC who survived the war under these conditions. I am looking forward to reading her work.
Rating: 4
Summary: THEY HAD THE COURAGE OF THEIR CONVICTIONS
Comment: THIS SUPERB ACCOUNT OF ONE OF CIVILIZATION'S
DARKEST HOURS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN, IF THIS QUOTE
FROM PAGE 217 WERE FOLLOWED BY OTHER PEOPLE
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND HISTORY. "WHAT IS
IMPORTANT IS THAT THEY VIEWED THE HOLOCAUST AS
ABOVE AND BEYOND POLITICS, THEY UNDERSTOOD THEIR
DUTY AS CHILDREN OF GOD, AS ITALIANS, AND AS HUMAN
BEINGS, AND THEY HAD THE COURAGE OF THEIR
CONVICTIONS."
GREAT READING.
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Title: The Jews in Fascist Italy: A History by Renzo De Felice, Robert L. Miller, Michael Arthur Ledeen ISBN: 1929631014 Publisher: Enigma Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
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Title: Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism by Alexander Stille ISBN: 0312421532 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews by Susan Zuccotti ISBN: 0803299141 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy by Susan Zuccotti ISBN: 0300093101 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Garden of Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani, William Weaver ISBN: 0156345706 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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