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LILIANA SEGRE Italian AuschwitZ survivor

“As long as my star shines”

Liliana Segre is an Italian Senator, but she is more than this. She is an Auschwitz survivor.

She was born in Milan in 1930 and belonged to a rich family. When the Fascism Racial Laws passed in 1938, she couldn’t go to school anymore and her family lost everything they had.

In 1944, when she was only13, together with her dad Alberto, she was taken to Milan railway station and from there to the hidden platform 21. It was all very fast... just three minutes.
Liliana Segre with her dad Alberto

She was afraid because she didn’t know that place and because all this was the beginning of a great negative change in her life.

There were a lot of German and Italian soldiers. She left on a train with another 605 people to go to Auschwitz.

The journey wasn’t comfortable because the people were in the cattle carriages. After a week, she arrived at the death camp.

She was tattooed with the number 75190 and had to do the forced Labour. She was freed on May Day 1945.

“I wear that number with honour because it is the shame of those who did it”

Liliana then started living again. She published books about her terrible experiences.

“As long as my star shines”
“ The black sea of indifference”
“ Carve it on your heart”
“ Memory makes us free”

In “ As long as my star shines”, she describes that night, in the Auschwitz concentration camp, when she chose one star in the sky. She thought she was that star and if the star shone, she couldn’t die and if she was alive the star was alive too...

Her message to people, especially to the young is about HOPE, TOLERANCE and the IMPORTANCE of LIVING because for her, life is beautiful!

On 19 January 2018, italian president Mattarella named Liliana Segre life senAtor for very high merits in the social fields.

Liliana Segre was named honorary citizen of our town Fasano, too, last december( 2019)
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Itala Caroli
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