(ANSA) – ROME, FEB 3 – Holocaust survivor and Life Senator Liliana Segre on Monday told the first international Summit on Children’s Rights at the Vatican that indifference can be worse than violence.
Segre, who also met Pope Francis during a private audience on Monday, recalled when she was not allowed to go to school due to the 1938 racial laws barring Jews from public life, noting that “we were surrounded by indifference, which is at times worse than violence”.
She said that was “why many years later I wanted the word ‘indifference’ to be written in capital letters at the entrance of Milan’s Holocaust Memorial” “The word indifference remains as a message for the students who come to visit it and who can go to school today.
“I ask them not to look the other way and to make a choice”, said Segre.
And the violence of the past must induce those living in the present to recognize all victims of violence, noted Segre.
“When the Shoah (Holocaust) creates recognition for every type of unfair suffering and for all victims of unjustified violence and hatred in every part of the world, of every population, ethic group and religion, it maintains its universal value, its ability to speak to everybody, and from the compassion for these children comes compassion for all the children of the world”, she noted. (ANSA).
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Segre, who also met Pope Francis during a private audience on Monday, recalled when she was not allowed to go to school due to the 1938 racial laws barring Jews from public life, noting that “we were surrounded by indifference, which is at times worse than violence”.
She said that was “why many years later I wanted the word ‘indifference’ to be written in capital letters at the entrance of Milan’s Holocaust Memorial” “The word indifference remains as a message for the students who come to visit it and who can go to school today.
“I ask them not to look the other way and to make a choice”, said Segre.
And the violence of the past must induce those living in the present to recognize all victims of violence, noted Segre.
“When the Shoah (Holocaust) creates recognition for every type of unfair suffering and for all victims of unjustified violence and hatred in every part of the world, of every population, ethic group and religion, it maintains its universal value, its ability to speak to everybody, and from the compassion for these children comes compassion for all the children of the world”, she noted. (ANSA).
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