Liliana Segre: "indifference is the reason for evil"

"Cultivating Memory is a vaccine against indifference and helps us to remember that each of us has a conscience and can use it". The Day of Remembrance has a face and it is that of Liliana Segre. 75 years have passed since the opening of the gates of Auschwitz, beyond which the earth became hell. The same hell lived in first person by LIliana, deported when she was only 14 years old.

Unlike others, she came out alive and this fortune, in the drama, was for her the sign that, in the years to come, she should have become the spokesperson for a mission: to fight against indifference, a living witness to monstrosities. with which man can be stained in his name. Considering this, the choice of the Zingarelli vocabulary to entrust the "author's definition" on the concept of indifference to the activist who survived the Holocaust is anything but casual. Here is a partial version of the words meticulously chosen by the woman: "Indifference holds the key to understanding the reason for evil, because when you believe that something does not touch you, does not concern you, then there is no limit to horror. ".

And it is always with a view to a present that demonstrates that it has learned from its past, through the study of history and, therefore, memory, that Liliana, appointed Senator for life "for having illustrated the homeland with very high merits in the social field" , has promoted the establishment of a Commission against hatred and racism, aimed at monitoring and combating the phenomena of intolerance and incitement to xenophobic violence.

Liliana's commitment, which for years has been considered "different", is aimed at creating a society that, freed from hatred and indifference, is ready to build bridges rather than erect walls, a society in which it will no longer have it makes sense to speak of an "other", a "different", aware, once and for all, that we are all the same regardless of skin color and religious beliefs.