(ANSA) - Milan, May 21 - The duty of memory is the basis for
future co-existence, President Sergio Mattarella said Tuesday
visiting the Milan Shoah Memorial.
"As much as has been read and seen, every moment of this kind
is strongly involving and impressive," he said.
"The abyss of evil is unimaginable and the duty of memory is
the basis for the future, for the co-existence of the future".
During his visit, which lasted about three quarters of an
hour, the head of State saw the most significant places of the
Memorial - the wall of indifference, the witness rooms, the wall
of names and the plaques of the convoys, the platforms of
deportations - and also got onto one of the freight carriages
that made up the convoys of the deported Jews.
This latter was "the place where the impact is strongest,"
said the president of the Memorial foundation, Roberto Jarach.
Jarach underscored that Mattarella was the first Italian
president to visit the Memorial since it was opened in a space
at Milan's central rail station.
photo: Mattarella with Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre
Duty of memory base for future co-existence-Mattarella
Visits Shoah Memorial in Milan