Liliana Segre Life Senator and 87-year-old Holocaust survivor.
Rome - Italian President (click here) Sergio Mattarella named 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre Life Senator on Friday.
Segre, an Auschwitz survivor, has written books and taken part in films about the Holocaust.
Segre told ANSA being named a Life Senator had been a "bolt from the blue" and that she was "just an emblem" for Holocaust remembrance. "I can't claim more importance than being an emblem, a person telling what she was witness to," said Segre, 87.
"It was a bolt from the blue: I feel like any other woman, a grandmother, and I never thought of all of this.
"Knowing that I'm among the Life Senators is an honour and a great responsibility".
The president of the Italian Union of Jewish Communities (UCEI), Noemi Di Segni, welcomed the decision. "I express our deep emotion at President Mattarella's decision in the name of all of Italy's Jewish communities," said Di Segni. "It precisely responds to the need to ensure that the institution called on to legislate has a memory of what happened in the past"....
