Mattarella: “Passing on to young people the horror of the barbarism of Nazi-fascism”

“Remembering does not only mean remembering and dutifully honoring the sacrifice of millions of innocent people, victims of fanatical, ruthless and inhuman violence. Witnessing and passing on the memory of those historical facts also means contributing to creating a culture of peace, of tolerance, respect, common belonging to the human race. Cultivating history and spreading memory is a decisive element for the creation and growth in the new generations of a solid and motivated civil conscience “. The President of the Republic points out Sergio Mattarellain the message sent to the XVIII national congress of the National Association of ex deportees to Nazi camps (Aned), which ends in Rimini.

“Well aware of the unspeakable atrocities suffered by the deportees in the Nazi extermination camps and the sufferings of their families – begins the head of state in his message – I wish to send a message of closeness and consideration to the final day of the XVIII Congress of the Aned” .

Mattarella addresses a greeting of “particular intensity” to the senator for life Liliana Segre and Mario Candotto“survivors of the hell of the extermination camps, and the other speakers, descendants of the many Italians deported to Germany for racial, political, religious reasons or for having opposed – with arms, with disobedience, with non-collaboration – to barbarism Nazi-fascist “.