The Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano writes a letter today to Republic to say that Liliana Segre is right. «Unfortunately, ignorance, prejudice and amorality are once again manifesting themselves among young people. To defeat anti-Semitism, we must therefore work on memory and culture. And this is what the Meloni government is doing with tangible and concrete actions», she claims. And she adds that «when, a few weeks after taking office, my friend Senator Ester Mieli told me the correct observation of Senator for Life Liliana Segre, who had noted that inside the Milan Railway Station there was a lack of historical signage capable of directing passengers – who are millions a year – towards “Platform 21” and the Shoah memorial, I immediately welcomed this sacrosanct need, sharing its ethical and moral value in full. Together with the senator, on a day that I will carry in my heart, we inaugurated a multimedia totem that tells the story of “Platform 21” from which the Milanese Jews departed headed for the extermination camps».
The National Holocaust Museum
Sangiuliano thanks Segre «for his testimony and his courage, which made him a moral reference for all of us. The Meloni government brought to Parliament which then approved the law establishing the National Shoah Museum, which will be built in Rome. The measure was passed unanimously by the Senate and the Chamber, and this is a good thing, because there is no division on such high principles.” And he concludes: Anti-Semitism, whether right or left, is not acceptable in civilization. I picked up a fundamental book again: “The origins of totalitarianism” by Hannah Arendt, in the Einaudi edition, and I extrapolated a clear warning: “We can no longer afford the luxury of taking what was good in the past and simply calling it heritage, to discard the bad guy and simply consider him a dead weight that time will bury in oblivion.”
