Nedo Fiano, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz, died

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19 December 2020

Nedo Fiano, father of the deputy Emanuele and one of the last survivors of Auschwitz, died in Milan.

He was 95 years old.

"My heart cries for the death of Nedo Fiano. A survivor of Auschwitz, he had the strength to tell the horror to entire generations. An example of life for all of us. A hug to Emanuele Fiano and his family from the Jewish community of Rome "writes in a tweet the president of the Jewish community of Rome, Ruth Dureghello.

Zingaretti: from today the world is poorer

"With the passing of Nedo Fiano, the world loses a man who, after surviving the horror of the Shoah, spent the rest of his life transmitting the value of memory to young people. A big hug to @emanuelefiano and his family. From today the world is poorer ".

So on twitter the Pd secretary, Nicola Zingaretti.

Moked: one of the last Italian witnesses

left us "Nedo Fiano, one of the last Italian witnesses to the Shoah, has left us. Born in Florence in 1925, who has long lived in Milan, he was one of the first survivors to discuss his dramatic experience in public . To open new paths of encounter and story with the new generations ".

Thus Moked, the portal of Judaism.

"The only one of his family to survive the hell of the concentration camp, Fiano was captured by a plainclothes fascist in the Florentine Via Cavour, locked up in the city prisons and then, after being interned in Fossoli, sent first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald. The last hug to his mother, on the platform of the camp, was heartbreaking. An embrace marked by the awareness that they would never see each other again.

"What has characterized my whole life - the Witness would have said in one of his numerous interventions - was my deportation to the Nazi extermination camps. With me in Auschwitz my whole family ended, they were all exterminated. At eighteen I am was orphaned and this devastating experience made me a different man, a witness for life ".

Moked underlines that they are "incurable lacerations, but also the strength to build and rebuild a life together with the beloved Rina Lattes, the schoolmate found after the Shoah, with whom she would have given birth to her three children Enzo, Andrea and Emanuele" .