On January 27, 1945, during the Vistula-Oder offensive, Red Army troops, proceeding towards Germany, liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. This liberation, however, represented for the whole world the possibility of realizing what kind of crimes and aberrations had been committed in those places, against the Jewish population and not only by the National Socialist regime. This event is remembered every year on the days when we are about to celebrate the Memorial Day, chosen by the General Assembly of the United Nations to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. This day is never trivial and is by no means to be taken for granted, as Senator Liliana Segre, a direct witness to the horrors of Nazism-fascism and racial laws, recently commented: "The danger of oblivion is always there and I am convinced of what I say. The initiatives that can come from an old woman like me are sometimes boring for others, I perfectly understand it; I know what the people say of Memorial Day. People have been saying for years, 'Enough with these Jews, that's boring.' And yet, when one has seen with their own eyes the horror and knows that now they can only talk about it with a few or very few people, then they are never happy and are more boring than the others. The risk of oblivion can be read in the words of Segre, who in a few years could relegate the Shoah to a few lines in the history books; objectively, this risk represents a danger that the whole of humanity cannot afford to run. And then, as every year, it makes sense to celebrate Memorial Day, both in civil society and in institutions. The President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, reminded us that they themselves have "the task of passing on the memory, so that in the future such tragedies will never be repeated, and the best way is that of memory: it is necessary to look at the present and the future considering that racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism must never again find citizenship". La Russia has also proposed recalling the tragedy of racial laws with an ad hoc day. Even in this sense, in fact, the risk of letting oblivion take over is a luxury that humanity cannot afford.
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