Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p These factors bought time for the Jews, and time allowed the French people to learn what was happening. But ultimately what saved lives, Zuccotti writes, was the passive support of the majority of average French men and women - shopkeepers, innkeepers, bus drivers, train conductors, village residents - who could tell that a customer or newcomer was different and probably a fugitive yet chose to remain silent. "A compliment for silence or benign neglect is faint praise indeed," she writes. "But in the historical reality of the Holocaust in France, especially as it applied to native Jews, silence was perhaps the most important factor in survival." Correcting the historical record, Zuccotti argues that the French reaction to the Holocaust, when judged by the awful standards of the rest of the world, was not as reprehensible as it has been portrayed.. }
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- catalog description "These factors bought time for the Jews, and time allowed the French people to learn what was happening. But ultimately what saved lives, Zuccotti writes, was the passive support of the majority of average French men and women - shopkeepers, innkeepers, bus drivers, train conductors, village residents - who could tell that a customer or newcomer was different and probably a fugitive yet chose to remain silent. "A compliment for silence or benign neglect is faint praise indeed," she writes. "But in the historical reality of the Holocaust in France, especially as it applied to native Jews, silence was perhaps the most important factor in survival." Correcting the historical record, Zuccotti argues that the French reaction to the Holocaust, when judged by the awful standards of the rest of the world, was not as reprehensible as it has been portrayed.".