Liliana Segre is an Italian Holocaust survivor, named senator for life by President Sergio Mattarella in 2018 for outstanding patriotic merits in the social field.
10 Facts About Liliana Segre
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Liliana Segre's family was secular, and the awareness of being Jewish came to Liliana only after the drama of the Italian Racial Laws of 1938, after which she was expelled from school.
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On 10 December 1943, at the age of thirteen, together with her father, Liliana Segre tried to flee to Switzerland, but both were rejected by the Swiss authorities.
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On 30 January 1944, Liliana Segre was deported from platform 21 of the Milan Central railway station to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she arrived seven days later.
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Liliana Segre was immediately separated from her father Alberto, whom she never saw again and who would be killed on 27 April 1944.
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At the selection, Liliana Segre was tattooed with the serial number 75190.
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Liliana Segre was employed in forced labour in the Union ammunition factory, which belonged to Siemens, for about one year.
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Liliana Segre remembers that she did not find in those years any ear willing to listen to her.
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In 2009, Liliana Segre lent her voice, a research project conducted by Marcello Pezzetti between 1995 and 2008 on behalf of the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation of Milan, which led to the collection of testimonies of almost all the Italian survivors from Nazi concentration camps who were still alive.
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Liliana Segre is the fourth woman to hold such position, after Camilla Ravera, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Elena Cattaneo.