The first session of the new Italian Parliament has opened with an emotional speech by a Holocaust survivor after a far-right party won last month’s general election.
Liliana Segre, a 92-year-old senator-for-life, was the only member of her Jewish family to survive the Auschwitz concentration camp. She reminded parliamentarians of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the mass demonstration and coup d’etat that brought fascist leader Benito Mussolini to power.
