Liliana Segre

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Liliana Segre, 2017

Liliana Segre (born September 10, 1930 in Milan ) is an Italian survivor of the Holocaust and an Italian senator for life.

biography

Segre comes from a Jewish family and lived with her father and paternal grandparents; her mother died shortly after she was born . As a result of the Italian racial laws ( leggi razziali ) of 1938, she was banned from attending school.

After the persecution of the Italian Jews had grown to a greater extent, her father initially hid them with friends with false documents. On December 7, 1943, she finally tried to escape to Switzerland with her father and two cousins . However, the Swiss authorities refused to admit them and Segre was arrested the next day by Italians in Selvetta di Viggiù in the province of Varese . At the time she was 13 years old. After six days in prison , she was transferred to Como and finally to Milan to the San Vittore prison , which served as a collective camp, where she was detained for forty days.

On January 30, 1944, she was deported from the Milano Centrale railway station together with 704 other Jewish prisoners to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, which she reached seven days later on February 6, 1944. During the selection , Segre was chosen to work in an armaments factory, which she performed for about a year. 447 prisoners who had arrived with her from Milan were sent directly to the gas chambers during the selection process .

In May 1944, her grandparents were also deported and killed. The inmate number tattooed on Segre's forearm is 75190. During her one year imprisonment, she survived three more selections. At the end of January 1945, in the course of the evacuation of the concentration camp , she had to start the death march towards Germany before she was liberated on April 30, 1945 in the Malchow concentration camp , a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp . She did not return to Milan until August.

The University of Trieste awarded her an honorary doctorate in law on November 27, 2008 . On 19 January 2018, it was the Italian President Sergio Mattarella to the Senator for life appointed.

Today Segre is a very active contemporary witness , especially at schools and universities . In autumn 2019, according to media reports, she was placed under police protection in the face of numerous anti-Semitic hate messages and received expressions of solidarity from several Italian politicians.

The University of Bergamo awarded her an honorary doctorate in law on November 29, 2019 .

literature

  • Emanuela Zuccalà: Sopravvissuta ad Auschwitz. Liliana Segre fra le ultime testimoni della Shoah , Milan: Paoline Editoriale Libri 2005, ISBN 978-88-315-2769-9 (in Italian).
  • Daniela Padoan: Come una rana d'inverno: conversazioni con tre donne sopravvissute ad Auschwitz . Milan: Tascabili Bompiani, 2004 (interviews with Liliana Segre, Goti Bauer and Giuliana Tedeschi ).
  • Silvana Greco: La spirale del misconoscimento e la lotta per il riconoscimento di Liliana Segre, testimone della Shoah . In: Giulio Busi, Ermanno Finzi (a cura di): Lombardia judaica. I secoli aurei di Mantova e un caso emblematico della Shoah milanese . Giuntina, Milan, 2017, pp. 107-136.

Web links

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  1. ^ Liliana Picciotto, Il libro della memoria. Gli Ebrei deportati dall'Italia (1943-1945) , Milan 2002, p. 574
  2. ^ Memoriale della Shoa di Milano. (pdf) In: wheremilan.com. Retrieved February 5, 2020 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from December 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Chi è Liliana Segre nominata da Mattarella senatrice da vita. In: Repubblica. January 19, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Valerie Zaslawski: One of the last contemporary witnesses remembers. nzz.ch, January 10, 2014, accessed on January 10, 2014
  6. ↑ Miriam Khan: Auschwitz survivor in Italy receives 200 hate messages per day - and now needs police protection. In: www.stern.de. November 8, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Liliana Segre all'Università di Bergamo "Ho scelto di essere una donna di pace". In: www.ecodibergamo.it. November 29, 2019, accessed February 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Segre, Liliana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian survivor of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan