Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
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Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy (2000, Yale University Press
) 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. The book details what the author perceives as the Catholic Church's anti-Semitic bias ranging from Jesuit publications to contemporary accounts by survivors of death camps.
In 2002, the book won the National Jewish Book Award, in the category of Jewish-Christian Relations, and in 2002, the Sybil Halpern Milton Prize presented by the German Studies Association.
Yale University Press
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) is a book by Susan Zuccotti
Susan Zuccotti
Dr. Susan Sessions Zuccotti is an American historian, specializing in studies of the Holocaust. She holds a PhD in Modern European History from Columbia University. She has won a National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies, and the Premio Acqui Storia – Primo Lavoro for Italians and the...
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It describes the actions of the Vatican
Holy See
The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...
and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust, claiming the Church stayed neutral even with the full knowledge of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis. The book details what the author perceives as the Catholic Church's anti-Semitic bias ranging from Jesuit publications to contemporary accounts by survivors of death camps.
In 2002, the book won the National Jewish Book Award, in the category of Jewish-Christian Relations, and in 2002, the Sybil Halpern Milton Prize presented by the German Studies Association.