People are fed up with the Jews
harping on about the Holocaust, survivor and life Senator
Liliana Segre said ahead of Friday's International Holocaust
Remembrance Day on Monday.
"People have already been saying for years, 'enough with these
Jews, how boring', when one has seen the horror and knows that
by now one can only talk about it with four or five people, then
one is never happy and is more boring than others," said the
Senator, 92, who was sent to Auschwitz as a girl.
"Someone like me believes that in a few years' time" on the
Shoah "there will be (just) a line in the history books and then
not even that", Segre said at the presentation of the Holocaust
Memorial Day initiatives in Milan.
"The initiatives that may come from an old woman like me are
sometimes boring for others, I understand this perfectly well,"
she said.
Segre came to the Senate recently to kickstart a vote on a bill
introducing so-called 'Journeys of Memory' to Nazi death camp
sites for Italian high-school students.
The Senate has 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 began speaking about her experience in the Nazi death camp
in the 1990s.
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