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15 November 2019 After days and weeks of attacks and controversy, Liliana Segre is back to talk. "I do not forgive and I do not forget, but I do not hate. And the transmission of non-hatred and fighting against hatred is a useful training for children and for everyone, because the atmosphere due to ignorance and indifference, which is she was the queen of the world back then, unfortunately she is still there today ", says the senator for life, speaking at the Science for Peace conference, organized at the Bocconi University in Milan by the Umberto Veronesi Foundation.



"It took me 45 years to be able to do my duty as a witness"

Liliana Segre, retracing her story of being deported to the concentration camp, recalled how she found herself "speechless" and "amazed" at the evil she saw around her, at "that organized hatred that I saw and then fought always". Back in Milan once she left the concentration camp, in front of the people close to her who did not want to hear about what she had experienced, she "started very early, already in the first days after my return, to keep quiet - she says - 45 years to be able to go and speak in front of the students, without ever mentioning the word hatred and revenge and do my duty as a witness ".



Thanks to Mattarella for "having opened the door to the Senate"

A heartfelt thanks to the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, for "having thrown open the door of the Senate", appointing her senator for life, after she had been "barred the school door" as a child because she was Jewish, a wound that she still carries inside , said the senator for life. "I am always hurt by the closure of the school door that I suffered as a child - she said - and I thank Mattarella who made me open the door of the Senate, and also for telling me that I did it thinking about my father and how much I had suffered as a daughter. ". The senator for life also explained how as soon as she entered the Senate, it occurred to her "to fight the speeches of hate because this fight is very strong inside her. You cannot live with the words of hate".



Crowd at a demonstration of solidarity - "I was pleased"

The crowded demonstration that was held last Monday in Milan, at Binario 21 where the Shoah memorial is located, to express solidarity with Liliana Segre attacked and threatened on the internet , has "pleased" the senator for life. "Of course I was pleased - he underlined - It was beautiful, with all those colored umbrellas".