For those who experienced the horror of the extermination camps and deportation, Remembrance Day is 365 days a year.
This is the message that the senator for life and Holocaust witness Liliana Segre brought when she arrived at the State University of Milan where she was awarded an honorary degree in Historical Sciences, for having offered her extraordinary testimony to research and for having told years the unspeakable to the youngest.
"I am not suited to talking about January 27 because those who have gone through what I have gone through do not wait for that date to remember - said the senator -. And every day can be the same or different but that place is never forgotten".
It is a Remembrance Day marked by controversies and ideological clashes over the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Times in which the word anti-Semitism returns, what Liliana Segre herself experienced when she was a 13-year-old girl and was deported with her father to Auschwitz from Platform 21 of Milan Central Station, faced with indifference.
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"We live in a time outside these walls in which it is difficult for me to talk about optimism - he admitted -. There is something already felt, already suffered. I have friends who tell me 'in this moment of resurgence of 'anti-Semitism stay at home'".
And then the same question, which she asked herself as a child, when she was kicked out of school for being Jewish, "why"?
Today like yesterday, a why that comes back.
Outside the state road, a protest was staged by social centers and collectives to say "enough with the Zionist holocaust against the Palestinian people".
And in the lectio magistralis in which she spoke with Enrico Mentana Liliana Segre spoke of the conflict that broke out on 7 October and of the many children who are victims of the hatred of adults "who find me like a desperate grandmother".
"I am a woman of peace and she has always made me suffer from the hatred between the parties, the revenge that I cannot conceive of - she explained -. The night is the night of time, in general indifference".
Always that indifference against which she fought and still fights, and which she wanted written in large letters at the entrance to the Shoah Memorial in Milan.
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The indifference that meant that, although many apologized to her personally, no one did so officially.
"In my long life I have not seen or met anyone who said 'I was one of those who pushed you into the carriage with kicks and punches'", she said.
Now the fear is that, as the senator has repeated many times, when there are no longer any witnesses, there will only be a few lines of the horror in the history books.
"Don't worry, Senator Segre: historians have always been the most effective enemies of Oblivion - Marco Cuzzi, professor of Contemporary History at the State University, reminded you in his laudatio -. We historians, and therefore from today you too, dear Senator, are not afraid oblivion".
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