Infinite sadness, I feel like I have lived in vain - Segre

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 7 - Holocaust survivor and life Senator Liliana Segre said on Tuesday she felt "infinite sadness" about the situation sparked by the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the Israeli retaliation, saying she feels like she has lived "in vain".
    "If I am here it is because I consider it an important evening," said the 93-year-old arriving at the synagogue in Via della Guastalla organised by Milan's Jewish community for the victims of the attacks and to call for the release of the hostages taken by Hamas.
    "I don't feel like talking about this subject because otherwise I feel like I have lived in vain," she continued, describing the images being broadcast as being "of infinite sadness".
    Born in 1930 into a Milanese family of Jewish origins, in 1938 Segre was expelled from her primary school after the promulgation of the Italian Racial Laws.
    In 1943, she was arrested with her family and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
    The only survivor among her relatives, with the end of the World War II in 1945, she returned to Milan.
    After decades of silence, in the 1990s she started to speak to the public, especially young students, about her experience.
    In 2018 President Sergio Mattarella named her Senator for life for outstanding patriotic merits in the social field. (ANSA).