Milan, 20 June 2024 – Today a Milan the ceremony for the awarding of the award took place Gold Medal for Civil Merit to the association of former deportees to Nazi camps Aned. Present the Senator Liliana Segre and the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi. The recognition was withdrawn from president Dario Venegoni in the Prefecture of Milan. He intensely responded to the senator’s words: “My natural pessimism would lead me to say perhaps all is lost, given the geographical, political, moral, ethical aspects, which bite us every day with enormous violence, and then I would be here to say everything is lost, but I don’t want to say this – said Segre -. I I want to be a daughter of Aned and I don’t want to be a future great-grandmother, as I am about to be to a little girl who doesn’t know the past. Those who are to be born, those who are young now, they must study history and they must be our hope“. In this sense, Aned “has a very great merit, which few other associations have, to look to the future and not be satisfied with the horrors of the pastbut to continue for the new generations who most of the time do not know the story.”
THEThe president of Aned Dario Venegoni today he spoke of a delay in the assignment, saying he was sorry for “those who were no longer there”. For Interior Minister Piantedosi the medal it arrives “late but not late, rather it projects us into the future”. The minister recalled how it was the senator for life Liliana Segre herself who reminded him of the existence of an investigation for the recognition that Piantedosi himself carried out and which the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella “very convinced” then decreed. For Piantedosi the medal “projects us into the future” for the cultural function carried out by Aned of disseminating the story of those who have been deported to young people.
