Holocaust survivor and life Senator
Liliana Segre turned 93 on Sunday, celebrating her birthday in
her summer home of Pesaro with her three children and various
grandchildren.
"Indifference is more culpable than violence itself," she said.
"It is the moral apathy of those who turned the other way: it
still happens today towards racism and the other horrors of the
world."
Segre, who started bearing witness to the Dhoah and telling her
own story late in life, marked her birthday amid preparations by
Rai TV for a documentary on her life.
Segre was named senator for life by President Sergio Mattarella
in 2018 for outstanding patriotic merits in the social field.
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.
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