"Today we remember the horror of anti-Semitism and renew our collective commitment to oppose any attempt to erase memory". These are the words pronounced by the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, on the occasion of Remembrance Day which is celebrated today all over the world. "Remembering is a commitment to the present, a foundation for the future", underlined the Premier.
According to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, this anniversary “does not only require us to remember the millions of deaths, the mourning and suffering of so many innocent victims, many of whom are Italian. But it invites us to prevent and fight, today and in the future, every germ of racism, anti-Semitism, discrimination and intolerance. Starting from the school desks. Because knowledge, information and education play a fundamental role in promoting a just and supportive society. And, as recent news stories attest, the guard must never be let down,” said Mattarella.
The Presidents of the Chamber and Senate, Roberto Fico and Elisabetta Casellati, also took part in the celebrations of Remembrance Day, who this morning, before the start of the fourth vote for the election of the President of the Republic, laid a wreath at the Shoah Museum of Rome, in the presence of the Senator for life Liliana Segre, representatives of the Jewish communities and the Embassy of Israel.
“Remembrance Day is an opportunity to forcefully renew the common commitment to fight indifference which, as Liliana Segre reminds us, was the true accomplice of the crimes of the Shoah. Only through the memory of the atrocities suffered by millions of innocent Jews, children, women and men can we keep alive the awareness of the mistakes of the past and the devastating consequences they have produced,” he declared. Box yourself, "The value and meaning of the day we celebrate on January 27 - the date of the demolition of the gates of Auschwitz - lies in the conservation and transmission, especially to the younger generations, of memory, which is something so precious and at the same time fragile. And for this reason it must be cultivated, spread, protected. Memory first of all as a tribute to all the victims of that criminal plan that was the Holocaust: Jews, Roma, Sinti, homosexuals and the disabled, military internees and opponents of the regime affected by the Nazi fury. Memory as a reminder of those people who found the courage not to look the other way, working, often at the risk of their own lives, to save the Jews from extermination. The President of the Chamber wrote in a note, Robert Fig.
