Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust - Ambiguous Refuge

This book illuminates the troubled history of how Italian and foreign Jews in an internment camp were deported to Auschwitz in full view of a bishop who supposedly was protecting them. Elsewhere brave farmers hid local Jews in caves and farms from the Fascist/Nazi hunters.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Sources
List of Personalities
A Short Introduction
Chapter One: Pitigliano and Other Cities of Refuge for Jews in Southern Tuscany over the Centuries
Chapter Two: A Bolt from the Blue? Fascist Racial Laws of 1938 and their Effects in Southern Tuscany
Chapter Three: Town versus Country, Conformity versus Defiance: Contrasting Behaviors Involving Jews
Chapter Four: Hiding Like Animals, in Caves, Barns and Farms; and the Righteous Gentiles of Tuscany Who Risked their Lives Protecting Jews
Chapter Five: At the Mercy of the Church and the Fascists: The Obligingly Hospitable Bishop Galeazzi of Grosseto, and the Experience of Jews Who Turned Themselves In
Chapter Six: Foreign Jewish Refugees Who Fled to Tuscany: Early Experiences
Chapter Seven: Last Days at the Bishop's Palace for Foreign and Italian Jews
Chapter Eight: Post War: The Search for a Return to Normal: For Jews, a Future of Virtual Judaism
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Judith Roumani is founder and director of the Jewish Institute of Pitigliano.

Summary

This book illuminates the troubled history of how Italian and foreign Jews in an internment camp were deported to Auschwitz in full view of a bishop who supposedly was protecting them. Elsewhere brave farmers hid local Jews in caves and farms from the Fascist/Nazi hunters.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Roumani, Roumani Judith
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781793629791
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-979-1
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / History, Italy, Tuscany, History of Religion, The Holocaust, Judaism, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust