Resources for Anna

Books

• The Battle for Rome: The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944

  Katz, Robert, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

  Presents the complicated history of Rome during the battle over it between the Germans and the Allies.
• *The Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Teens who Hid from the Nazis

  Kustanowitz, Esther, New York, 1999.

  Short biographies of young individuals hiding during the Holocaust.
• Hiding in the Open

  Neumark, Zenon, London and Portland, OR, 2006.

  Memoir of a Jewish teenage boy who passed as an Aryan.
• *Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust

  Rosenberg, Maxine B., New York, 1994.

  Stories of 14 Jewish children hidden with non-Jewish families during the Holocaust.
• Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism

  Stille, Alexander, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

  Documents the experiences of five Jewish families in Italy under fascism and during the Holocaust.
• Hiding in the Open

  Zimering, Sabina S., St. Cloud, MN, 2001.

  Memoir of a Jewish girl who, posing as a Catholic Pole with her sister, hid in Germany.
• The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue and Survival

  Zuccotti, Susan, New York: Basic Books, 1987.

  Examines the experiences of Italian Jews during the Holocaust and explores why 85% of Italy’s Jews survived the war.

Websites

• Museum of the Jewish People: Beit Hatefutsoth

  https://www.bh.org.il/

  Museum of the Jewish Diaspora: Beit Hatefutsoth
• Italian Life Under Fascism: Selections from the Fry Collection

  https://www.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/special-collections/italian-life-under-fascism-selections-from-the-fry-collection/

  Online exhibition of material from the collection of the University of Wisconsin
• Battle of Monte Cassino

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_cassino_01.shtml

  BBC website on the history of World War II

Films

• Garden of the Finzi-Continis

  94 minutes, 1970

  The story of the Finzi-Contini family, a prominent Jewish family in Ferrera, Italy. The film plays out amidst of the tumultuous politics of the late 1930s. Italian, with English subtitles.
• The Truce

  117 minutes, 1998

  Based on Primo Levi’s autobiography, Reawakening, this movie explores the real-life stories of Italian Jews returning home from Auschwitz.