Dr. Susan Sessions Zuccotti (born 1940) is an American

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 historian

Historian

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, specializing in studies of the Holocaust

The Holocaust

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. She holds a PhD

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 in Modern European History from Columbia University

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. She has won a National Jewish Book Award

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 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

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 in 2002 for Under His Very Widows (2000). She is married to John Zuccotti.

Dr. Zuccotti has taught courses on Holocaust history at Barnard College

Barnard College

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 and Trinity College

Trinity College (Connecticut)

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.

Books

• The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue and Survival (1987)
• The Holocaust, the French and the Jews (1993)
• Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
  Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
  Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy is a book by Susan Zuccotti.It describes the actions of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust, claiming the Church stayed neutral even with the full knowledge of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis...
  
  (2000)
• Two popes and the Holocaust: an examination of the controversy (2005)
• Holocaust odysseys: the Jews of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and their flight through France and Italy (2007)