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Long applause and a standing ovation greeted the senator’s lifetime entry Liliana Segre in the tensioned structure installed in the Citadel of Peace in Rondine, in Arezzo, to host his last public testimony destined for Italian schools and young people around the world.
“One day in September 1938 I became the other,” said the senator for life. I know that when my friends talk about me they always add my Jewish friend. And that day at 8 years old I could no longer go to school. I was at the table with my dad and my grandparents and they told me they had expelled me. I asked them why, I remember the looks, they answered me because we are Jews, there are new laws and Jews can no longer do a number of things. someone reads fascist racial laws in depth one of the cruelest things was making the kids feel invisible. Many of my colleagues did not realize that my desk was empty.
“I’ve been underground and I know what it means to be rejected. You can be rejected in many ways.”
In lager, “when you have nothing, you only have your body that is visibly losing weight, it is very difficult, except in novels, to make friends because the fear of dying from a misstep or a look makes you become the same. that your torturers want you to be: to become inhuman, selfish. After my father’s separation, the terror of befriending someone and then losing him made me prefer solitude, I was afraid of losing something again.
“When you take humanity away from people, you have to abstract yourself and get out of there with the thought if you want to live. I always choose life. I am alive by chance. Because everyone chose life, few of those who committed suicide although it was very easy “.
“I have never forgiven, as I have not forgotten, some things that I have never been able to forgive.” “The extermination camp worked perfectly, for years, there was not the slightest mistake. We began to understand that we had to begin to forget our name, which in Jewish tradition has a meaning. They tattooed a number on my arm and after many years it still reads well, 75190. And we had to immediately learn it in German. When I entered Auschwitz I had not studied Dante yet, I studied him later, and they sentenced us to sentences but there was no retaliation: I thought he was crazy. never all the details of my incarceration. “
“For a moment I saw a gun on the ground, I thought about picking it up. But I didn’t. I realized that it was not like my killer. Since then I have become a free and peaceful woman with whom I have lived until now” , he concluded.
“The Constitution was drawn up with before our eyes the tragic events that also involved Liliana Segre as a child and was approved with the firm determination not to allow the monsters of totalitarianism that had devastated Europe to still poison Italy, our continent. No more deprivation of liberty, wars of aggression, no more denial of human rights, no more racism, hatred, intolerance. This was the common will of the constituent fathers. It is their merit if our Republic is based on principles of great value: democracy, freedom, equality, centrality of the human person, peace and justice among nations ”. Written by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in the message sent today on the occasion of the last public testimony of Liliana Segre.
“I came here not to speak but to hear the last public testimony of Senator Segre. A testimony of such tragic events that it has the function of questioning consciences, of urging us to drive away indifference and even ambiguities, of requesting us.” to take clear positions and clear options. I offer my personal guarantee and that of the entire government that this testimony does not end today but that it will remain alive ”. The prime minister said so Giuseppe Conte talking to Rondine
“The message, the testimony of Liliana Segre, is undoubtedly contained in our Constitution.” Affirmed it Roberto Fico, Speaker of the House, in his greeting speech at the ‘Thank You Liliana’ event in Rondine (Arezzo), with Senator Liliana Segre for life.
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