Holocaust survivor and Life Senator
Liliana Segre told a Remembrance Day event at the presidential
Quirinale Palace Tuesday that she had not shot her jailer at
Auschwitz and had become a woman of peace instead.
"Fortunately, I didn't pick up that gun and I became a woman of
peace, for life", she said in recalling the moment of her choice
not to pick up the gun thrown to the ground by her jailer on May
1, 1945, when the doors of the Auschwitz concentration camp
opened, and the camp's kapos took off their uniforms, drove the
dogs away and tried to mingle with the survivors.
Segre spoke in the presence of the President of the Republic
Sergio Mattarella, and the highest offices of the State, for the
celebrations of the Day of Remembrance.
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