Under his very windows : the Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy [World War 2 / Genocide]
Zuccotti, Susan2000
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Imprint:
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c2000.
Collation:
[xi], 408 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., facsim., ports. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Pope Pious XII has often been criticised for his silence during the extermination of European Jewry during World War 2. This book examines exactly what the Pope, his advisers and his assistants at the Vatican did, if anything, to help the Jews.The Vatican and anti-semitism --- The Vatican and anti-semitism in Italy --- Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XI and Piux XII ---- Refugees and emigration, 1939-1942 --- Foreign Jews in Italian Internment camps, 1940 to 1943 ----What the Pope knew about the Holocaust ---- Italian occupied Croatia, 19741 -1943 ---- Italy and Italian occupied France, 1942-1943 ------ The Vatican, Badoglio and the Jews ---- The Rome Roundup, 1943 --- Hiding after the roundup : Roman convents, monasteries, Catholic Hospitals and Schools, Vatican Properties, 1943 ---- Raids and reconsideration, 1943-1944 ---- The Vatican and rescue in the North : Genoa, Turin and Milan --- The Vatican and rescue in Central Italy : Florence and Assisi --- The Vatican, the Patriarch and the Jews in Venice ---- The Vatican, the Bishop and the Jews in Trieste ---- The Vatican and Jews arrested in Italy, 1943 -1945
ISBN:
9780300084870 ((hbk.) :)0300084870 ((hbk.) :)
Dewey class:
940.53180945
Language:
English
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BRN:
1380641