ROME (ITALPRESS) – “Eighty years ago the horror of the Shoah was shown to the world in all its terrifying force. On Jan. 27, 1945, the gates of Auschwitz were torn down, and along with them that wall that prevented the abomination of the Nazi plan of persecution and extermination of the Jewish people from being clearly seen collapsed.” This was stated in a note by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. “Men, women, children and the elderly torn from their homes, forced to leave everything behind, taken to extermination camps and killed only because they were of the Jewish religion. A plan whose premeditated ferocity makes the Shoah a tragedy unparalleled in history,” Meloni continues. “A plan, the one conducted by Hitler’s regime, which in Italy also found the complicity of the fascist regime, through the infamy of the racial laws and involvement in the round-ups and deportations. “An abyss that was countered by the courage of so many Righteous, who did not hesitate to disobey and risk their own lives to save the lives of thousands of innocent people. Today we are celebrating Holocaust Remembrance Day, remembering the names and surnames of the victims and renewing the memory of those events, also through the testimony of survivors and their descendants,” the premier says again. “Living witnesses of a horrible page of our past, to whom we once again give our thanks. Because, if today we know what happened, we owe it above all to them. “I am alive that I may testify. There was a bigger picture for me, and I will go on remembering as long as I live,” said Sami Modiano. It is an extraordinary lesson, which we must make our own in order to cultivate memory and raise, more and more, awareness of it in the younger generations. Anti-Semitism was not defeated by tearing down the gates of Auschwitz. It is a scourge that has survived the Holocaust, has taken different forms and spreads through new tools and channels. Fighting anti-Semitism, in all the forms in which it manifests itself, ancient and modern, is a priority of this government,” Meloni concludes. “Commitment that has never failed and that we intend to pursue with strength and determination, including through the elaboration of the new National Strategy for Combating Anti-Semitism, an articulate and scenario document that sets concrete goals and actions to counter an abject phenomenon that has no right of citizenship in our societies.
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