Holocaust survivor and Life
Senator Lilian Segre will address the European Parliament on
Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 29, sources said Friday.
Segre, 89, who survived Auschwitz as a girl, will address a
plenary session of the EP in Brussels.
EP President David Sassoli invited her.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day takes place on 27
January, two days before Segre's address.
Segre was named senator for life by President Sergio
Mattarella on 19 January 2018.
Born into a Milanese Jewish family in 1930, Segre was
expelled from her school in her young age after the promulgation
of Italian Racial Laws in 1938.
In 1943 she was arrested with many people of her family and
deported to the deportation and concentration camp for forced
labor of Auschwitz.
After 1990 she started to speak to the public, especially
young people, about her experience.
Segre was recently given a police escort after anti-semitic
threats against her.
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