Edith Bruck, too many fascists, let's be careful

FLORENCE - "The underestimation is total, there are too many demonstrations, including fascists. Indeed, we are full of fascists. Fascist demonstrations are prohibited by the Constitution and they did not make me sleep: I saw exponents of Forza Nuova with the swastika. And I have I had nightmares: I dreamed that the swastika was choking me. Let's be careful, even in the 30s the problems started like this, after the economic crisis ". This is the alarm launched today in Florence by Edith Bruck, writer, poet and witness of the Shoah. Bruck, excited, was a guest on the first day of the fifth edition of the Festival of religions in Florence, being interviewed. Participation in the Festival was also an opportunity to give her the Keys to the City of Florence by the mayor Dario Nardella,recognition for which Bruck said she was "honored, happy and content". For the writer, if the past serves as a lesson to avoid repeating certain mistakes, the present, made up of 'No vax' and 'No green pass' processions, does not leave me alone: ​​"The 'No vax' demonstrations did not make me sleep - has added -. We must intervene and the fault lies also with today's politicians. Those who have not experienced the tragedy of the Shoah cannot understand, but it is serious that the demonstrations pass into indifference ".Action must be taken and today's politicians are also to blame. Those who have not experienced the tragedy of the Shoah cannot understand, but it is serious that the demonstrations pass into indifference ".Action must be taken and today's politicians are also to blame. Those who have not experienced the tragedy of the Shoah cannot understand, but it is serious that the demonstrations pass into indifference ".

Hence the connection between a painful history and a future that - according to Bruck herself - can be "dangerous". "Let's be careful - he reiterated -. Even in the '30s the problems started like this. Here, in addition to the crisis, there is unemployment, Covid and general discontent". "Neglecting is wrong, it must not be done, neither by politicians nor by the information". "It is really exciting to hear her words today in our city and her tireless will to be a witness", then said the mayor, handing over to the writer the Keys of the City, recognition attributed to her for "for her tireless work of witness to young women. generations of the crimes ofHolocaust experienced by her in first person and told with great clarity and courage, making the Italian language her own, and for having brought back the racial discrimination against the Jewish people that have crossed Europe from the 1930s to today