\u201cWith their testimony of life, they contribute every day to cultivating fraternity, building a future made up of collaboration and defense of the weakest, growing in mutual good, plowing the ground on which hatred grows, sowing peace, and making our country a better place\u201d. The commitment to Memory and the immense civil passion carried out by the witnesses of the Holocaust were solemnly recognized last week by the municipality of Assis, which conferred the honorary citizenship for peace to all the Italian survivors still alive. It is a \u201cdutiful\u201d and \u201cheartfelt\u201d act, stressed the mayor, Stefania Proietti. And this is because Memory, she said, \u201cmust be, in addition to being a value for respecting our past, also a responsibility of everyone, first of all of the institutions\u201d.
\nThat carried out by Assisi is a unique initiative and it was unanimously approved by the the municipal council. The ceremony, which was available in streaming on the social media, was organized by the city administration, together with the Museum of the Memory of the Diocese and the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.
\n\u201cThis day is the result of the vision of a special city\u201d, pointed out the mayor of Assisi Stefania Proietti. \u201cA city that wants to erase hatred from the world\u201d. In this direction, she said, the commitment of the Shoah witnesses is decisive: \u201cYou give us the strength to have courage. You are an example, a beacon. For Assisi and for the whole world\u201d.
\nThe Bishop Domenico Sorrentino recalled the war times, recalling the respect showed then towards the religious identity of all hidden Jews and the vast action that led to the salvation of hundreds of people.
\nThe fundamental role of the Holocaust witnesses was stressed also by the President of the Italian Jewish Communities, Noemi Di Segni. \u201cYou are an example \u2013 she said – of what it means to do Memory, on how to remember\u201d. And it is a very timely commitment: \u201cAnti-Semitism is re-emerging today in new forms, in subtle ways. That of Assisi is an important gesture. Memory is an act of collective responsibility\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"