Italy is marking International
Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday with ceremonies and events
all over the country.
Senate Speaker Elisabetta Casellati and Lower House Speaker
Roberto Fico laid wreaths at the site of the Raid on the Ghetto
of Rome in which Nazis and Fascists rounded up 1,259 Italians,
mostly Jews, to be sent to concentration camps on
October 16, 1943.
Life Senator and Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre also attended
the event, along with senior members of Italy's Jewish
community.
"Remembrance Day is an occasion to powerfully renew the common
commitment to combat indifference which, as Liliana Segre
reminds us, was the real accomplice of the crimes of the Shoah,"
said Casellati.
"Only be remembering the atrocities endured by millions of Jews,
blameless children, women and men, can be keep alive awareness
of the mistakes of the past and the devastating consequences hat
they produce".
January 27 is the anniversary of the day the Red Army liberated
the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in 1945.
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