(Finance) – “If understanding is impossible, knowing is necessary, because what happened can return, consciences can be seduced and obscured again: ours too”. These are the words of Primo Levi, one of the few who “returned” from the hell of Auschwitz.
It was January 27, 1945, when the Soviet troops of the 60th Army of the “1st Ukrainian Front” of Marshal Ivan Konev, broke down the gates of Auschwitz. Beyond the entrance, the survivors, together with the instruments of torture and death found inside, became the testimony of an event of rare drama, ignored until that moment.
And, on that date, all over the world – as every year since 2005 as established by the UN – Remembrance Day is celebrated to commemorate the horror of the Holocaust of which thousands of Jews – but also Roma, homosexuals, opponents, disabled and homeless people – were exterminated in Nazi concentration camps.
On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance which is celebrated today all over the world, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella stressed that this anniversary “does not only require us to remember the millions of dead, the grief and suffering of many innocent victims, including many Italians. 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 episodes attest, the guard must never be let down “.
“Today we remember the horror of anti-Semitism and renew our collective commitment to thwart any attempt to erase memory. Remembering is a commitment for the present, a foundation for the future. “This is the message from the Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
“The Day of Remembrance is an opportunity to strongly renew the common commitment to combat 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 Jews, of children, women and men without guilt, we can keep alive the awareness of the mistakes of the past and the devastating consequences they have produced “declares the President of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, who this morning laid a wreath at the Museum of the Shoah in Rome together with the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Fico. The president of the Jewish Community of Rome Ruth Dureghello, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni and the Chief Rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni.