“Indifference is more culpable than violence itself,” she said.
“It is the moral apathy of those who turned the other way. It still happens today towards racism and the other horrors of the world.”
Segre, who beared witness to the Shoah and told her own story late in life, marked her birthday amid preparations by Rai TV for a documentary on her life.
Segre was named senator for life by President Sergio Mattarella in 2018 for outstanding patriotic merits in the social field.
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.
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