Posted on June 9, 2022
“After our telephone chats, today I had the pleasure of meeting Senator Liliana Segre in person. Her story and her determination impressed me very much “.

Chiara Ferragni writes this, posting a photo of her with the senator for life on social media.
The meeting took place at the home of Segre, who in recent weeks had expressed the desire to meet the influencer and to invite her to visit the Shoah Memorial with her.
“I saw that with her husband Fedez she is committed to social issues, I would like to meet her,” said Segre, arguing that visitors to the Memorial commemorating the victims of the holocaust in Italy are still too few.
“His example – he added – could bring many young people here”.
The husband of the entrepreneur, Fedez, responded indirectly to the invitation and invited the 91-year-old senator for life to the podcast “Wild Moss”.
Chiara Ferragni accepts the invitation after having met Liliana Segre in person, who was deported at the age of 13 from Milan Central Station, together with her father, who did not return from Auschwitz.
The visit will take place in autumn, when the senator for life will return from her holidays in Pesaro. These days you have your last public commitments at the Memorial and then on the 16th you will leave for vacation.
The meeting with Chiara Ferragni took place in the morning, before a conference of the police and the Interior Ministry at the Memorial in piazza Safra, an open space in via Ferrante Aporti.
The influencer was received at home in the living room where the senator welcomes her loved ones.
But there are those who had objected to Segre’s desire to involve Ferragni on a delicate issue such as the Shoah.
Today, on the sidelines of the conference with Minister Luciana Lamorgese at the Memorial, Segre said with a smile: “With Ferragni, everything goes”, without going into further details, given that it was the influencer with 27 million followers to make their match.
The senator for life, while Ferragni published the news of their private meeting, retraced her story as a child victim of discrimination, given that the conference was dedicated precisely to this theme: “I felt what it means to be an outcast and in a of course I am still a victim of the hatred of keyboard lions, so much so that my dearest friend Minister Lamorgese about three years ago imposed an escort on me. They still hate me today and would like me dead, even if in reality they won’t have to wait that long, as I am almost 92 years old ”.
By telling this sad truth, Liliana Segre even managed to make the audience of policemen and carabinieri smile, in the midst of which sat all the leaders of the Italian police forces. The senator for life was the guest of honor at the conference “The victims of hatred”, organized by the observatory on discrimination Oscad, a meeting that this year was organized at the Memorial of the Shoah in Milan, which inaugurates precisely in these days the new headquarters of the CDEC, a center for contemporary Jewish documentation. Luciana Lamorgese came to Milan for this event and to preview the great new library of 40,000 volumes.
“My carabinieri – explains Liliana Segre in her speech – told me that I am the only one so old in Italy to have it, because evidently, despite the 92 years I will turn in September, I am considered very dangerous”. Luciana Lamorgese looks at her from the front row with affection and you can see that the two women have really become friends. “Dear Liliana, you were the victim of many threats and we had to protect you so that you can continue to carry out your precious witness work, to pass on the memory to us, so that we pass it on to our children”, the head of the Interior Ministry will say shortly afterwards. three years ago he assigned the escort to the senator. “Escort – continued the senator for life – which later turned out to be an extended family of which I am very happy”, but “this does not mean that since I was 8 years old in 1938 I have not felt excluded from society for the guilt of being born “. So much applause for her who, dressed in light, as always, smiles and listens to over two and a half hours of speeches.
“Why is someone hit, hated and maybe killed just for being born? How did we get to 2022 without asking? If this problem is not solved, it will be all madness ”, concluded Segre. “We see many manifestations of hatred, not only for the difficult time that our country, like others, is experiencing”, underlined the Minister of the Interior. “So much so that in 2021 there were 449 reports of episodes of discrimination or hatred received by the Observatory on the phenomenon directed by the prefect Vittorio Rizzi. Episodes united by a matrix of discrimination against those who are different in terms of skin color, religion, gender identity and disability “.
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