“When I enter the Shoah Memorial I am no longer the old woman I am now, I am the one who entered here to be deported”, on 30 January 1944. Senator for life Liliana Segre said this when she arrived at Platform 21 in Milan where she is to begin a visit requested by the senator herself with the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa and the members of the extraordinary commission for the fight against the phenomena of intolerance, racism, anti-semitism and incitement to hatred and violence, which Liliana Segre chairs.
“I have never forgotten it,” she told journalists upon her arrival, responding to those who asked her the meaning of this day.
Di Segni: Remembrance Day only remembers the genocide of the Shoah
“Remembrance Day is dedicated solely to the victims of the Shoah. Knowing what happened and how the genocide of the Shoah was carried out. And the attention of all of us that day must be focused on this and only on this. Attention it is therefore also about the responsible use of words, first of all genocide”. Noemi Di Segni, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, told ANSA
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