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Liliana Segre is an Italian senator for life named by president Sergio Mattarella on 19 January 2018.Born into a Milanese Jewish family in 1930, Segre was expelled from her school in her young age after the promulgation of Italian Racial Laws in 1938. In 1943 she was arrested with many people of her family and deported to the deportation and concentration camp for forced labor of Auschwitz. After 1990 she started to speak to the public, especially young people, about her experience.

✵ 10. September 1930
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Liliana Segre Quotes

“Every minute of our life must be lived to the full – whether enjoyed or suffered. We must study, see the good around us, and fight the bad, and not waste time writing to a 90-year-old woman to tell her you wish she’d die. Besides, nature will take care of that.”

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During a seminar at Milan’s IULM University, speaking of the haters; as quoted in "Escort for Liliana Segre following insults and threats" https://www.corriere.it/english/19_novembre_07/escort-for-liliana-segre-following-insults-and-threats-2c3dea64-015f-11ea-bfaf-9602a8f3f6c1.shtml, Corriere.it (7 November 2019).

Study , Time , Bad luck , Suffering

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