Holocaust survivor and life Senator
Liliana Segre said on Holocaust Remembrance Day Monday that she
wasn't afraid of death threats and would go forward as if she
were on a Nazi death march.
"It was called the death march, because those who couldn't make
it were killed, said the 94-year-old, who was deported to
Auschwitz with her family as a 14-year-old girl and was the solo
survivor of them.
"And often the 'skeletons' couldn't walk.
"I was so used to that vision that I didn't turn around, I put
one leg in front of the other and went forward.
"I wanted to live. 80 years have passed and today I am an old
woman but I am still the same Liliana of then, with one leg in
front of the other.
"And so I go amid threats, swear words that are told and
reported to me every day in great abundance".
Segre, speaking at the seat of the Constitutional Court to pay
homage to the judge, figure and scientific work of the professor
of Roman law, Edoardo Volterr, added: "Me depressed? No, I'm
not," I answer my son when he asks, "one leg in front of the
other. I'm not afraid."
photo: Segre (L), accompanied by Noemi Di Segni (R), president
of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, arrives for the
wreath-laying ceremony at the tombstone of the deportees at the
Synagogue of Rome Monday
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