The Shoah Museum that is to be
established in Rome will help ensure that the evil of
Nazifascism that led to the Holocaust is never forgotten,
Premier Giorgia Meloni said on Holocaust Remembrance Day on
Saturday.
"It is our duty to cultivate every day the memory of what
happened and to increase awareness of it among the younger
generations," said Meloni.
"It is a commitment that this government is pursuing with great
constancy and determination," she added.
"Rome is home to the oldest Jewish community in Europe, and the
Eternal City could not fail to host a museum institution
specifically dedicated to the history of the Shoah, on a par
with the museums in other major European capitals and with Yad
Vashem in Jerusalem," continued the premier.
The planned museum "will have the task of handing down the
memory of the Shoah and we are certain tat will make a decisive
contribution so that the evil of the Nazi-Fascist criminal
design and the shame of the racial laws of 1938 do not fall into
oblivion," concluded Meloni.
Last October parliament gave final and unanimous backing to a
bill to establish a museum dedicated to the Shoah, the Hebrew
word for Holocaust, in Rome.
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