Liliana Segre

Liliana Segre
Segre in 2018
Member of the Senate of the Republic
Life tenure
19 January 2018
Appointed bySergio Mattarella
Personal details
Born (1930-09-10) 10 September 1930 (age 94)
Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Political partyIndependent
Spouse
Alfredo Belli Paci
(m. 1951; d. 2007)
Children3
Alma materSapienza University of Rome
University of Bergamo
University of Trieste
University of Verona
LUMSA University
Known forHolocaust survivor

Liliana Segre OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [liˈljaːna ˈsɛːɡre, - ˈseːɡre]; born 10 September 1930) is an Italian Holocaust survivor, named senator for life by President Sergio Mattarella in 2018 for outstanding patriotic merits in the social field.[1]

Born in 1930 into a Milanese family of Jewish origins, in 1938 Segre was expelled from her primary school after the promulgation of the Italian Racial Laws. In 1943, she was arrested with her family and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The only survivor among her relatives, with the end of the World War II in 1945, she returned to Milan. After decades of silence, in the 1990s she started to speak to the public, especially young students, about her experience.

  1. ^ Rastelli, Alessia (18 January 2019). "Liliana Segre senatrice a vita, la decisione di Mattarella" [Liliana Segre senator for life, Mattarella's decision]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 24 March 2018.