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Senator Liliana Segre, in the medieval town of Rondine Cittadella della Pace, in the province of Arezzo, offers her last public testimony to the students to underline the importance of memory.
“In my story there is pain, pity for that girl who was me and who is now that girl’s grandmother. I know it’s hard to see a 90 year old woman think she was a girl. One day in September 1938 I became ‘the other’ and since then there is a whole world around that considers you different. And this has always lasted, I am always ‘the other’. I know that when my friends talk about me they always say ‘my Jewish friend’ ”.
So the senator for life Liliana Segre, speaking at the Citadel of Peace in Rondine. medieval village
in the Arno eight kilometers from Arezzo, in his “last public testimony” to remember the tragedy of the Shoah as a survivor of Auschwitz.
“When I became the other and at 8 I could no longer go to school, I was at the table with my family and they told me that I could no longer go to school – recalled Segre – I asked why and I remember the looks of those who loved me and had to tell me that they unjustly expelled me for being a Jew. One of the cruelest things about racial laws was making children feel invisible. Many of my colleagues did not notice that my desk was empty … and for years they did not ask me anything “.
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A long applause, with a standing ovation, received the entrance of the senator for life in the tensioned structure mounted in Rondine, the medieval village near Arezzo, to receive her last public testimony destined for the Italian schools and the young people of the world of the Cittadella della. Peace.
To illustrate the meaning of the event “Thank you Liliana! The last public testimony of Liliana Segre to the Italian schools and to the young people of the world of Rondine Cittadella della Pace ”was the journalist Ferruccio de Bortoli in his capacity as honorary president of the Milan Shoah Memorial.
De Bortoli recalled the testimonial role played by Segre over the past 30 years, as a Holocaust survivor, in educating young people in particular about the duty to remember the tragic past of the 20th century.
Later, some young people from the Citadel of Peace in Rondine welcomed the senator for life, declaring that they wanted to take over from her.
The senator for life has cut the ribbon of the Janine Arena, a space that was created for the project ‘Citadel of the Third Millennium’, a plan to expand and transform the Arezzo town of Rondine so that it becomes a common good, a model of sustainability environmental and capable of promoting the development of citizen coexistence.
With Segre, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Presidents of the Chamber and Senate, Roberto Fico and Elisabetta Casellati, Ministers Luigi Di Maio, Lucia participate in the event Azzolina, Gaetano Manfredi, Luciana Lamorgese, the president of Cei, Gualtiero Bassetti, and the number one of Ucei, Noemi Di Segni.
Education Minister Lucia Azzolina, during Liliana Segre’s last public speech to the students, she will launch the first contest promoted together with Rondine Cittadella della Pace, entitled ‘Turn around, Janine lives!’, a title inspired by the life of the senator for life, with the objective of educating the new generations to respect differences in the face of all forms of violence and discrimination, always keeping the memory of the Shoah alive.
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