Shoah survivor Segre in Senate for 'memory trip' bill

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 18 - Life Senator Liliana Segre, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, came to the Senate Wednesday to kickstart a vote on a bill introducing so-called 'Journeys of Memory' to Nazi death camp sites for Italian high-school students.
    Segre was welcome by a long round of applause as she made her entry into the Upper House.
    The Senate last week approved a fast track for the bill to help make it easier for schools to set up the 'Memory Trips' to former Nazi death camps and teach students more about deportations of Italy's Jews.
    Under the bill, special funding would be made available to Italian high schools for the journeys in memory of the Holocaust.
    Segre, who spent years in Auschwitz after being deported as a girl, began speaking about her experience in the 1990s. (ANSA).