Liliana Segre: Giorno della memoria /Holocaust remembrance day 2024

"Cultivating Memory is still today a precious vaccine against indifference, and it helps to remember, in this world so full of injustice and suffering, that each and every one of us has a conscience and can use it." -Liliana Segre LILIANA SEGRE:TEMO DI VIVERE ABBASTANZA PER VEDERE COSE CHE PENSAVO LA STORIA AVESSE DEFINITIVAMENTE BOCCIATO,…Read more Liliana Segre: Giorno della memoria /Holocaust remembrance day 2024

#LilianaSegre: 90 years old today. This is her story. #Lestweforget the horrors man is capable of

Liliana Segre:Le più belle frasi   Temo di vivere abbastanza per vedere cose che pensavo la Storia avesse definitivamente bocciato, invece erano solo sopite.  Liliana Segre: The most beautiful passages   I’m afraid I will live long enough to see the things I thought History had definitely quashed and which were, instead only dormant.Coltivare la…Read more #LilianaSegre: 90 years old today. This is her story. #Lestweforget the horrors man is capable of

Liliana Segre: In Auschwitz at thirteen #LestWeForget

"The trip to Auschwitz – very few speak about it because very few came back – is one of the most terrible chapters of the Shoah. Mine lasted six days, and for six days this humanity lived hoarded in the freight car with its misery, with its bodily functions, with its smell of sweat, of…Read more Liliana Segre: In Auschwitz at thirteen #LestWeForget

Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/ In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 6

"Don't die. The war is almost over..." This is this last part of Liliana Segre's story. We have travelled along this unimaginable path with her. And if we have a conscience, we should keep these memories close to our hearts, #lestweforget. Part 6 Non morite, la guerra sta per finire Arrivammo poi in altri Lager:…Read more Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/ In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 6

Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/ In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 5

"The evacuation and death march began because our persecutors were running from the Russians, and they didn’t want to leave prisoners (they hadn’t had the time to kill us all) or witnesses of that atrocious place called Auschwitz." - Liliana Segre Part 5 Avevamo una fame terribile Avevo intorno a me le mie compagne, erano…Read more Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/ In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 5

Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/ In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 4

"How does a woman feel when she’s suddenly stark-naked in front of soldiers who pass, look, and snicker with the extreme contempt of the ruling race..." Liliana Segre Part 4 Auschwitz: stazione di non ritorno Fu un momento essenziale. La maggior parte di noi era condannata a morte all’arrivo. E a quel silenzio che io…Read more Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/ In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 4

Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/ In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 3

"And the railwaymen who were driving those trains did not ask—or did not ask themselves—why the cars came back empty…" - Liliana Segre Part 3 … Non fu così. Ma la cosa che mi ricordo di più di San Vittore è un’altra: la Gestapo chiamava gli uomini per gli interrogatori, feroci: torturavano, davano botte, martoriavano.…Read more Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/ In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 3

Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 2

"We could never have imagined that other men and women had prepared a similar sort for human beings whose only crime was that of being born Jewish." Part 2 Dovevamo fuggire in Svizzera Anch’io avevo la carta d’identità falsa. Quando mio padre riuscì ad averla da un impiegato corruttibile di un municipio e me la…Read more Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 2

Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 1

So much talk about us and them. So much hatred. So much need to put others down in order to feel bigger, better, stronger. So little memory of the senseless harm man can do...And so today I will start publishing the translation of the account of Liliana Segre, an outstanding woman, a senator, a survivor,…Read more Liliana Segre: da Ad Auschwitz a tredici anni/In Auschwitz at thirteen – Part 1

Liliana Segre

"The trip to Auschwitz – very few speak about it because very few came back – is one of the most terrible chapters of the Shoah. Mine lasted six days, and for six days this humanity lived hoarded in the freight car with its misery, with its bodily functions, with its smell of sweat, of…Read more Liliana Segre

Sopravissuta a Auschwitz/A survivor of Auschwitz by Liliana Segre (quotes)

Il viaggio verso Auschwitz – pochi ne parlano perché pochi sono tornati – è uno dei capitoli più terribili della Shoah. Il mio è durato sei gironi, e per sei giorni questa umanità viveva stipata nel vagone con le sue miserie, con i suoi bisogni fisici, con i suoi odori di sudore, di urina, di…Read more Sopravissuta a Auschwitz/A survivor of Auschwitz by Liliana Segre (quotes)