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Segre says doesn't fear threats, forward like death march

One leg in front of the other, I'm the same as 80 years ago.

Segre says doesn't fear threats, forward like death march

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 27 - Holocaust survivor and life Senator Liliana Segre said on Holocaust Remembrance Day Monday that she wasn't afraid of death threats and would go forward as if she were on a Nazi death march.
    "It was called the death march, because those who couldn't make it were killed, said the 94-year-old, who was deported to Auschwitz with her family as a 14-year-old girl and was the solo survivor of them.
    "And often the 'skeletons' couldn't walk.
    "I was so used to that vision that I didn't turn around, I put one leg in front of the other and went forward.
    "I wanted to live. 80 years have passed and today I am an old woman but I am still the same Liliana of then, with one leg in front of the other.
    "And so I go amid threats, swear words that are told and reported to me every day in great abundance".
    Segre, speaking at the seat of the Constitutional Court to pay homage to the judge, figure and scientific work of the professor of Roman law, Edoardo Volterr, added: "Me depressed? No, I'm not," I answer my son when he asks, "one leg in front of the other. I'm not afraid." photo: Segre (L), accompanied by Noemi Di Segni (R), president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, arrives for the wreath-laying ceremony at the tombstone of the deportees at the Synagogue of Rome Monday (ANSA).
   

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