In 1990, Liliana Segre began her work as a witness to the Shoah. We heard her speak in Assisi in 2005 during a pilgrimage marking thirty years of the Fede e Luce movement in Italy.
When this book was published, it seemed the moment had come for her to step back from her role as a public witness. Her longing to be close to her grandson—as her own grandparents had been close to her—felt stronger than ever. Then in January 2018, she changed course, accepting the appointment of lifetime Senator from President Mattarella. As she herself emphasized, "cultivating Memory remains today a precious vaccine against indifference and helps us, in a world so full of injustice and suffering, to remember that each of us has a conscience and can use it".
Eighty years after Italy's racial laws were passed, this book is recommended—from age eleven onward—for anyone who believes it matters to keep our memory alive.
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