Eighty-five percent of Italy s Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and the lives of countless others were marked by terror. Susan Zuccotti relates hundreds of stories showing the resourcefulness of the Jews, the bravery of those who helped them, and the inhumanity and indifference of others.
For Zuccotti, the Holocaust in Italy began when the first black-shirted thug poured a bottle of castor oil down the throat of his victim, or when the dignity of a single human being was violated. She writes: We might examine...
Eighty-five percent of Italy s Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and the l...
