“It is our duty to cultivate every day the memory of what happened and to increase awareness of it among the younger generations,” said Meloni.
“It is a commitment that this government is pursuing with great constancy and determination,” she added.
“Rome is home to the oldest Jewish community in Europe, and the Eternal City could not fail to host a museum institution specifically dedicated to the history of the Shoah, on par with the museums in other major European capitals and with Yad Vashem in Jerusalem,” continued the PM.
The planned museum “will have the task of handing down the memory of the Shoah and we are certain that will make a decisive contribution so that the evil of the Nazi-Fascist criminal design and the shame of the racial laws of 1938 do not fall into oblivion,” concluded Meloni.
Last October, parliament gave final and unanimous backing to a bill to establish a museum dedicated to the Shoah, the Hebrew word for Holocaust, in Rome.
Meloni, who was a member of the youth wing of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement as a teenager, has recently been under pressure to denounce fascism after recent fascist rallies in Rome.
AAP
