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Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust
Ambiguous Refuge
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2020
Summary
The province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany shows two extremes in the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust. To the east of the province, the Jews of Pitigliano, a four hundred-year-old community, were hidden for almost a year by sympathetic farmers in barns and caves. None of those in hiding were arrested and all survived the Fascist hunt for Jews. In the west, near the provincial capital of Grosseto, almost a hundred Italian and foreign Jews were imprisoned in 1943–1944 in the bishop's seminary, which he had rented to the Fascists for that purpose. About half of them, though they had thought that the bishop would protect them, were deported with his knowledge by Fascists and Nazis to Auschwitz. Thus, the Holocaust reached into this provincial corner as it did into all parts of Italy still under Italian Fascist control. This book is based on new interviews and research in local and national archives.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2979-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2980-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
204
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A Short Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 1 Pitigliano and Other Cities of Refuge for Jews in Southern Tuscany over the Centuries No access Pages 7 - 26
Chapter 2 A Bolt from the Blue? No access Pages 27 - 48
Chapter 3 Town versus Country, Conformity versus Defiance No access Pages 49 - 64
Chapter 4 Hiding like Animals, in Caves, Barns, and Farms; and the Righteous Gentiles of Southern Tuscany Who Risked Their Lives Protecting Jews No access Pages 65 - 80
Chapter 5 At the Mercy of the Church and the Fascists No access Pages 81 - 110
Chapter 6 Foreign Jewish Refugees Who Fled to Tuscany No access Pages 111 - 130
Chapter 7 Last Days at the Bishop’s Palace for Foreign and Italian Jews No access Pages 131 - 158
Chapter 8 Post War: The Search for a Return to Normal No access Pages 159 - 186
