Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said
anti-Semitism was not defeated when the gates of Auschwitz were
torn down, announcing a national strategy to fight the
phenomenon in a message issued on Monday to mark International
Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th anniversary of the
liberation of the concentration camp.
The premier also noted in the message that the Nazi plan, whose
premeditated ferocity makes the Holocaust a tragedy without
comparison in history, found the complicity of the Fascist
regime in Italy.
Anti-Semitism "is a plague that survived the Holocaust, it took
different forms, and spreads through new tools and channels.
"Fighting anti-Semitism, in all the forms in which it appears,
ancient and modern, is a priority of this Government", the
premier also said in her message.
"A commitment that has never failed and which we intend to
promote with strength and determination, also through the
elaboration of a new national Strategy to fight anti-Semitism,
an articulated document" which sets "objectives and concrete
actions to counter a vile phenomenon which has no right of
citizenship in our societies", the premier said in the message.
"Eighty years ago, the horror of the Holocaust was shown to the
world in all its terrifying strength.
"On January 1945, the gates of Auschwitz were torn down and,
together with them, the wall that prevented to clearly see the
abomination of the Nazi plan to persecute and exterminate the
Jewish people also came down.
"Men, women, children and elderly people were taken from their
homes, forced to leave everything, taken to extermination camps
and killed only because of their Jewish religion.
"A plan of such premeditated ferocity makes the Holocaust an
unprecedented tragedy in history.
"A plan, conducted by Hitler's regime, which in Italy also found
the complicity of the Fascist" regime, through the "infamy of
the racial laws and the involvement in roundups and
deportations", the premier said in the message.
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