The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews Quotes

“Posing as their visitor, she simply walked out with them, against all rules.”
― Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

“Of the pastor who first met her and insisted on carrying her bags, Juliette recalled, “It was not sufficient for him just to save us; he also had the grace to treat us like chosen guests.”
― Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

“more people were saved by informal, unorganized measures initiated individually than by organized networks.”
― Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

“But despite the pressure, Italian authorities refused to cooperate. The Allied invasion of Sicily in July, Mussolini’s subsequent fall from power, and his replacement as head of government by Marshal Pietro Badoglio ended any lingering hopes of the French and German authorities that the Italians would release foreign Jews in their zone and ease the pressure on Vichy officials to arrest Jewish citizens.”
― Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

“Several hundred armed French police guarded 340 often old and feeble Jewish immigrants who had sought asylum in the country of the rights of man. The government of that country was now turning them over to the Nazis for slaughter.”
― Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

“The interdependence was not apparent because it was incomprehensible.”
― Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

“And the idea of deportation to death never occurred to them.”
― Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

“Internees, and especially families with children, did not escape when they had the opportunity because they had nowhere else to go.”
― Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

“Census data formed the basis of the lists used during all future roundups for deportation.”
― Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews

“Their decisions in 1940 and 1941, however, must be examined not with the knowledge of subsequent events but in the context in which they were made.”
― Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews