Holocaust survivor and life Senator
Liliana Segre said on Tuesday she felt "infinite sadness" about
the situation sparked by the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel
and the Israeli retaliation, saying she feels like she has lived
"in vain".
"If I am here it is because I consider it an important evening,"
said the 93-year-old arriving at the synagogue in Via della
Guastalla organised by Milan's Jewish community for the victims
of the attacks and to call for the release of the hostages taken
by Hamas.
"I don't feel like talking about this subject because otherwise
I feel like I have lived in vain," she continued, describing the
images being broadcast as being "of infinite sadness".
Born in 1930 into a Milanese family of Jewish origins, in 1938
Segre was expelled from her primary school after the
promulgation of the Italian Racial Laws.
In 1943, she was arrested with her family and deported to the
Auschwitz concentration camp.
The only survivor among her relatives, with the end of the World
War II in 1945, she returned to Milan.
After decades of silence, in the 1990s she started to speak to
the public, especially young students, about her experience.
In 2018 President Sergio Mattarella named her Senator for life
for outstanding patriotic merits in the social field.
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