Special Holocaust Series: “If you are not indifferent, things can be different.” Tuesday, October 18 at 7 pm. Casa Belvedere, The Italian Cultural Foundation | 79 Howard Ave., Staten Island, NY. Liliana Segre: An Italian Story of the Holocaust. An in-person and virtual event. Presented by Francesco Bonavita, Ph.D. Register for in-person here. Regis...
READ MOREThe reassuring speeches, the morale-boosting flyovers and the evening balcony applause for medical staff have done little to impress 90-year-old Liliana Segre. A prominent lawmaker in her native Italy who barely survived Auschwitz as a teenager, she has maintained a sober attitude throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit Italy early and ha...
READ MORE600 Italian mayors joined the life senator and Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre at a rally against hatred in Milan on 10 December. Thousands of people showed up to support the 89-year-old Segre who survived Auschwitz concentration camp as a child and was recently placed under police protection following a barrage of anti-Semitic messages, including...
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