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.
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