# Susan Zuccotti

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{{Short description|American historian (born 1940)}}
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'''Susan Sessions Zuccotti''' (born November 14, 1940) is an American [historian](/source/historian), specializing in studies of the [Holocaust](/source/The_Holocaust). She holds a [PhD](/source/PhD) in Modern European History from [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University). She has won a [National Jewish Book Award](/source/Jewish_Book_Council) for Holocaust Studies,<ref name='review1'>{{cite web | url = http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/reviewsh43.htm | title = Review of Susan Zuccotti. Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy. | access-date = 2011-01-02 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110522074454/http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/reviewsh43.htm | archive-date = 2011-05-22 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners|title=Past Winners|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=2020-01-21}}</ref> and the [Premio Acqui Storia](/source/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](/source/Sybil_Halpern_Milton_Memorial_Prize) of the [German Studies Association](/source/German_Studies_Association) in 2002 for ''Under His Very Windows'' (2000).   She was married to real estate developer [John Zuccotti](/source/John_Zuccotti) until his death in 2015.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/zuccotti-by-roberts/?scp=1&sq=zuccotti%20park%20john&st=cse | work=The New York Times | first=Sam | last=Roberts | title=A Public Servant Whose Name Is Now on Protesters' Lips | date=2011-10-05}}</ref>

Zuccotti has taught courses on Holocaust history at [Barnard College](/source/Barnard_College) and [Trinity College](/source/Trinity_College_(Connecticut)).<ref name='bioC'>{{cite web | url = http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/2/408.full.pdf | title = Biographies of Contributors | accessdate = 2011-01-02}}</ref>

==Work on Vatican's role in the Holocaust==
Zuccotti argues in ''[Under His Very Windows](/source/Under_His_Very_Windows)'' that [Pope Pius XII](/source/Pope_Pius_XII) knew of the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust and could have done more to stop it.<ref>Zuccotti, ''Under His Very Windows'', Yale, 2002, Chapters 7-19</ref>

==Books==
*''The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue and Survival'' (Nebraska: [University of Nebraska Press](/source/University_of_Nebraska_Press), 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](/source/Under_His_Very_Windows%3A_The_Vatican_and_the_Holocaust_in_Italy)'' (New Haven: [Yale University Press](/source/Yale_University_Press), 2000)
*''Holocaust Odysseys: The Jews of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and Their Flight Through France and Italy'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Holocaust Odysseys {{!}} Yale University Press|url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300122947/holocaust-odysseys|access-date=2021-03-27|website=yalebooks.yale.edu}}</ref>
* [http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806747 ''Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue''] (Indiana: [Indiana University Press](/source/Indiana_University_Press), 2013)

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