Holocaust survivor and writer Edith Bruck on Tuesday refused the Anzio Peace Prize saying the coastal town near Rome had confirmed the posthumous honorary citizenship of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
In an open letter to the town's rightwing mayor, Candido De Angelis, the 90-year-old poet and film director also said Anzio had refused to honour local Holocaust survivor Adele di Consiglio.
"A woman alone, who survived the Nazi-Fascist barbarities which annihilated her family as it did mine," Bruck wrote to the League official.
"On the other hand, the honorary citizenship was confirmed for Mussolini who still has many followers in your area, and not only, but also in Europe itself, which has a poor memory." Bruck, born 3 May 1932, is a Hungarian-born writer, director and Holocaust survivor.
She has lived most of her life in Italy and writes in Italian.
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