Susan Sessions Zuccotti (born November 14, 1940) is an American

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, specializing in studies of the

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. She holds a

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in Modern European History from

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. She has won a

National Jewish Book Award The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature.Premio Acqui Storia The Acqui Award of History (Premio Acqui Storia) is an Italian prize. The prize was founded in 1968 for remembering the victims of the Acqui Military Division who died in Cefalonia (September 13–26, 1943) fighting against the Nazis. The jury i ...

– 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 The German Studies Association (GSA) is an international organization of scholars in history, literature, economics, cultural studies, and political science who study Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The organization began in 1976 as the West ...

of the

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in 2002 for ''Under His Very Windows'' (2000). She was married to real estate developer

John Zuccotti John Eugene Zuccotti (; June 23, 1937 – November 19, 2015) was an Italian-American businessman active in real estate and development in New York City. He is best known as the namesake of Zuccotti Park. Early life John Zuccotti was born in 1937 ...

until his death in 2015. Zuccotti has taught courses on Holocaust history at

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and

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Work on Vatican's Role in the Holocaust

Zuccotti argues in ''

Under His Very Windows ''Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy'' (2000, Yale University Press) is a book by Susan Zuccotti which examines the role of the Catholic Church in providing aid to Jews in Italy during the Holocaust, and is critical ...

'' 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'' (Nebraska:

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, 1987) *''The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews'' (Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press,1993) *'' Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy'' (New Haven:

Yale University Press Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous. , Yale Univer ...

, 2000) *''Holocaust Odysseys: The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and Their Flight Through France and Italy'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)
''Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue''
(Indiana:

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, 2013)

References

Historians of the Holocaust Historians of the Catholic Church Historians of Italy Historians of France American historians of religion Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 1940 births Living people American women historians {{US-historian-stub