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

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, specializing in studies of the

Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

. 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 1943, is an American organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature. The goal of the council, as stated on its website, is "to promote the reading, writing and publishing of qual ...

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 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 Wester ...

in 2002 for ''Under His Very Windows'' (2000). She was married to real estate developer John Zuccotti until his death in 2015. Zuccotti has taught courses on Holocaust history at

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and Trinity College.

Work on Vatican's role in the Holocaust

Zuccotti argues in '' Under His Very Windows'' that

Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII (; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 18769 October 1958) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958. He is the most recent p ...

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:

University of Nebraska Press The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books. The press is under the auspices of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the University of Ne ...

, 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 Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and ope ...

, 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

American 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