The Rome city assembly on Friday
voted unanimously to make Holocaust survivor and Life Senator
Lilian Segre an honorary citizen of the capital.
Segre, 89, survived Auschwitz as a girl.
She 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 after the promulgation of the Italian
Racial Laws in 1938.
In 1943 she was arrested with many members of her family and
deported to 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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