Liliana Segre, witness for life

Rome

This October 9, Liliana Segre came to tell her story for the last time in front of young people from Arezzo, in Tuscany, and to nearly eight million Italian pupils who listened to her live.

Elegant and upright, putting all her strength in evocation, she came to put an end to thirty years of testimony for the memory, against indifference and hatred.

Thirty years which led the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to appoint her, in January 2018, senator for life, to make her the Italian incarnation of memory.

A political act of weight in a country which has never completed its examination of conscience on the war.

But at just 90 years old, she is tired and, she says,

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Liliana Segre is the Italian Simone Veil, of which she also has the strong character and grace, the taste for life and intelligence, these qualities which were so decisive in their common destiny.

Back from Auschwitz, where she has

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