Liliana Segre Honorary Doctorate in History of Europe at La Sapienza Opening Ceremony
Virginia Raggi, Mayor of Rome.
Rome, 18/02/2020. Today, Sapienza University of Rome held the official Opening Ceremony of the Academic Year 2019-2020 (1.), 717th since its foundation, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella and other representatives of the Italian Institutions and Civil Society. During the event, the Senator for Life and Holocaust survivor, Liliana Segre, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree (Ph. D) in History of Europe....
more »Virginia Raggi, Mayor of Rome.
Rome, 18/02/2020. Today, Sapienza University of Rome held the official Opening Ceremony of the Academic Year 2019-2020 (1.), 717th since its foundation, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella and other representatives of the Italian Institutions and Civil Society. During the event, the Senator for Life and Holocaust survivor, Liliana Segre, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree (Ph. D) in History of Europe. At the end of the event, Alessandro Saggioro, coordinator of the Ph.D. in History of Europe delivered his speech followed by the Senator Segre's Lectio Magistralis entitled "La Storia sulla pelle" (History on the skin).
«[…] Liliana Segre was 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 [and extermination] camp. The only survivor among her relatives, with the end of the war in 1945 she returned to Milan. After decades of silence, in the 1990s she started to speak to the public, especially young people, about her experience […]» (2.).
Footnotes & Links:
1.
https://www.uniroma1.it/it/notizia/inaugurazione-dellanno-accademico-2019-2020
Video (ITA)
https://youtu.be/L_uDBPz2swc
Speeches (PDF in ITA)
http://bit.do/fwKXP
Treccani (ITA)
http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/liliana-segre/
Shoah Memorial (ENG)
http://www.memorialeshoah.it/liliana-segre/?lang=en
2. Wikipedia (ENG)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliana_Segre« less
![Virginia Raggi, Mayor of Rome.<br />
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Rome, 18/02/2020. Today, Sapienza University of Rome held the official Opening Ceremony of the Academic Year 2019-2020 (1.), 717th since its foundation, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella and other representatives of the Italian Institutions and Civil Society. During the event, the Senator for Life and Holocaust survivor, Liliana Segre, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree (Ph. D) in History of Europe. At the end of the event, Alessandro Saggioro, coordinator of the Ph.D. in History of Europe delivered his speech followed by the Senator Segre's Lectio Magistralis entitled "La Storia sulla pelle" (History on the skin).<br />
«[…] Liliana Segre was 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 [and extermination] camp. The only survivor among her relatives, with the end of the war in 1945 she returned to Milan. After decades of silence, in the 1990s she started to speak to the public, especially young people, about her experience […]» (2.).<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://www.uniroma1.it/it/notizia/inaugurazione-dellanno-accademico-2019-2020<br />
Video (ITA) https://youtu.be/L_uDBPz2swc<br />
Speeches (PDF in ITA) http://bit.do/fwKXP<br />
Treccani (ITA) http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/liliana-segre/<br />
Shoah Memorial (ENG) http://www.memorialeshoah.it/liliana-segre/?lang=en<br />
2. Wikipedia (ENG) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliana_Segre](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000d8gBI3P4Qt8/s/800/800/IMLN9157.jpg)
