(ANSA) - Rome, January 19 - The president of the Italian
Union of Jewish Communities (UCEI), Noemi Di Segni, on Friday
welcomed President Sergio Mattarella's decision to make
Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre a life Senator.
"I express our deep emotion at President Mattarella's
decision in the name of all of Italy's Jewish communities," said
Di Segni.
"It precisely responds to the need to ensure that the
institution called on to legislate has a memory of what happened
in the past".
Jewish Community moved by Segre move
UCEI's Di Segni welcomes Mattarella's move