Susan Zuccotti taught Holocaust history and modern French history at Barnard and Columbia Colleges, New York University, and Trinity College in Hartford, CT. She is the author of the award-winning Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy and currently is an independent historian living in New York City.
"Zuccotti brings multiple tales together into a coherent,
compelling, and dramatic narrative."—Maud Mandel, Brown
University
*Maud Mandel*
"Drawing on both witnesses and documents, Holocaust Odysseys tells
the extraordinary story of hundreds of Jewish refugees who found
refuge in mountainous country in the south of France and who later
made their way to Italy, fleeing the Germans who hunted them.
Justifiably, we concentrate on those who were murdered during the
Holocaust. But we learn as well from those who, through
determination, resourcefulness, careful planning, good timing,
unusual opportunities, Jewish resistance, the sometimes heroic
generosity of French and Italians—but most of all through sheer
good fortune—emerged alive when the war finally ended. As Susan
Zuccotti's narrative vividly relates, they experienced the best and
the worst. For any balanced account of the Holocaust, we need to be
aware of both."—Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe
Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto
*Michael R. Marrus*
"This is a book that Susan Zuccotti is uniquely capable of
writing. Her knowledge is unparalleled, her handling of oral
history is meticulous, a model of what can be done and what must be
done to verify survivors’ accounts and then give it shape and form.
Her narrative is compelling, skilled, sensitive, restrained and
responsible."—Michael Berenbaum
*Michael Berenbaum *
"Although based primarily on the oral testimonies of these Jewish
survivors, who were mostly teenagers at the time, this beautifully
written book also draws on published memoirs and secondary sources.
. . . Zuccotti has provided an important contribution to Holocaust
historiography."— Vicki Caron, Shofar
*Shofar*
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