Liliana Segre, the last public testimony for young people: ‘I have never forgiven the Nazis’. Mattarella: ‘Constitution of totalitarianism’

The last public testimony of Liliana Segre, the senator for life symbol of the memory of the drama of Shoah. Segre has chosen to speak with Italian schools and young people from all over the world, from Citadel of Peace, in the village of Rondine (Arezzo), where this morning theSand in Janine: a space with the right to young friend that Segre was unable to greet before being taken to the gas chambers of Auschwitz. “I’ve been clandestine and asylum seeker. I know what it’s like to be rejected. You can be rejected in many ways, ”said the senator for life in her speech. Where you remembered, of survived in Auschwitz, the “day of September 1938” in which “I became the other”, in which “when I was 8 years old I could no longer go to school”. But he also related his arrival at Nazi beer: “We had to forget our name, that nobody cared. From that moment on we were a number that was tattooed on my arm: mine was 75190“.” The thugs caught by alone They are fearful. Those I knew felt they were strong and invincible, Young people Aryan Nazis – Segre added in another passage of his speech – They were not of the human race. They always ask me if I have forgiven and I answer no. I have never forgiven, I can not do it”.

Janine’s sand will be great natural context and eco-sustainable aggregation for i Young people that will promote memory as an effective tool against indifference. This place will ideally pick up the legacy scored by Liliana Segre. “I chose the vitae and I became free“It is the sentence of the same Segre that was placed at the entrance of the area. In the inauguration are, among others, the presidents of the House and Senate, Roberto Fico ed Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, the first Minister Giuseppe Conte and the president of the CEI Gualtiero Bassetti together with the ministers Luigi di maio, Luciana Lamorgese me Lucia Azzollina.

A long applause and a standing ovation greeted the entry of life senator Liliana Segre into the tensioned structure installed in the Citadel of Peace in Rondine. “One day in September 1938 is become the other. I know that when my friends talk about me they always add my jewish friend. And that day, when I was 8 years old, I couldn’t go to school anymore. I was in the table with my dad and my grandparents and they told me I’d been expelled. I asked why, I remember the looks of mine, they answered ‘just becausewe are jews, there are new laws and Jews can no longer do various things. ‘ If someone reads the fascist racial laws one of the cruelest things was making people feel invisible the children. Many of my colleagues did not realize that my desk it was empty“Said Senator for Life Liliana Segre.

“Auschwitz? When I studied Dante, years later, I realized that we were sentenced sentenced to sentences. When I entered there I thought I was go mad. It was a place thought at the table by respected people in their world, a place they had organized for ‘the other’, a reality that had been running for years perfectly. We had to forget our name, nobody cared. From that moment on we were a number that was tattooed on my arm: mine was 75190 ″, Segre said during his last public testimony to remember the tragedy of the Shoah. “In front of death you don’t need many words, because they are useless. When death feels close there is only silence, the solemn silence, the unforgettable silence. At that moment only interiority was worth. That was the moment of life or death, ”Segre explained. Then he added: “When humanity is taken away from people, it is necessary abstract and get out of there thinking if you want to live. Always choose life. I am alive by chance. Because everyone chose life, few who committed suicide even very easy“.

In the lager, “when you dont have anything, you only have your own body that lose weight visibly, it is very difficult, except in novels, to form friendships because the affraid to die by a misstep or a look, it makes you who you are torturers they 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 the loneliness, I was afraid of to lose still something, ”said the senator for life. “For a moment I saw a gun on the ground, I thought about picking it up. But I did not. I understood that I I was not like my killer. Since then I have become free woman me of peace I’ve lived with until now, ”Segre explained.

MATTARELLA’S MESSAGE
“From Liliana Segre a precious testimony for young people.” Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in the message sent on the occasion of the last public testimony of Liliana Segre. “The Constitution was drawn up with the tragic events which 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 could still poison Italy, our continent. No more deprivation of liberty, wars of aggression, no more denial of human rights, no more racism, hate, intolerance. This was there common will of the constituent parents. It is his merit if our Republic is founded on principles of great value: democracy, freedom, equality, centrality of the human person, peace and justice among nations, ”wrote the Head of State.

OTHER INTERVENTIONS
“I came here not to talk but hear the last public testimony of Senator Segre. A testimony of events so tragic that it has the function of question consciences, to urge us to drive away indifference and even ambiguities, to urge us to hire clear positions me clear choices. I offer my personal guarantee and that of the entire government that this testimony does not end today but will stay alive“Said the prime minister Giuseppe Conte talking to Rondine. A deliberately brief intervention, during which Conte always kept the mask.

“The message, the testimony of Liliana Segre, is undoubtedly contained in the our constitution“, has declared Roberto Fico. “Italy really is her grateful”added the president of Camera, according to which “by swearing to our Constitution we swear to move forward testimony by Liliana Segre, so every time we face the Constitution we face the reasons why it was born: against fascism, against Nazism, against all that made it ugly the human being “. For Fico“ it is the great day responsibility that as institutions of the Republic we renew, which is to continue forever the beginning me values of our Constitution, which means democracy, which means freedom, What does that mean respect for the human being, any human being. That is why today is the day of the responsibility of the institutions of the Italian Republic, and of all of you: to carry this message ”.

“You taught us that remember the horror It is necessary that no company can grow without memory from the mistakes of the past. You made us experience the sense of contempt, emptiness and oppression. Today will not be your last testimony, your words will continue to live through us and the next generations. The responsibility of memory belongs to each young person who is here to listen today, ”said the Senate President. Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. The President of the European Parliament also spoke with a video message sent to the ceremony. David sassoli: “Segre has decided to leave his genius to the young moral heritage, it’s great Not to do that Segre managed to survive the hell of Auschwitz because it allowed us to know, I did not forget it and get better. Unfortunately, the antisemitism virus is still very present in the european culture and in our societies “.